Isolated ventricular septal defects detected by color Doppler imaging: Evolution during fetal and first year of postnatal life

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 266-273

  Axt Fliedner, R ^a   Schwarze, A ^a   Smrcek, J ^a   Germer, U ^b   Krapp, M ^a   Gembruch, U ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color Doppler; Fetal echocardiography; Outcome; Spontaneous closure; Ventricular septal defects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FOLLOW UP; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STILLBIRTH;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33646700313     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.2716     Document Type: Article

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