Detection rate of early fetal echocardiography and in utero development of congenital heart defects

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-196

  Smrcek, Jan Michael ^a   Berg, Christoph ^b   Geipel, Annegret ^b   Fimmers, Rolf ^b   Axt Fliedner, Roland ^a   Diedrich, Klaus ^a   Gembruch, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Fetal echocardiography; Fetal heart; First trimester; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DEFECTS; DIAGNOSIS; NEONATAL MONITORING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS; FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETAL HEART; FIRST TRIMESTER; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 32244439826     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.2.187     Document Type: Article

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