Correlation of fetal DNA levels in maternal plasma with Doppler status in pathological pregnancies

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 785-790

  Smid, Maddalena ^a   Galbiati, Silvia ^a   Lojacono, Andrea ^b   Valsecchi, Luca ^a   Platto, Chiara ^b   Cavoretto, Paolo ^a   Calza, Stefano ^b   Ferrari, Augusto ^a   Ferrari, Maurizio ^a,c,d   Cremonesi, Laura ^a,e  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Diagnostica e Ricerca San Raffaele   (Italy)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e Genomic Unit for the Diagnosis of Human Pathologies   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal DNA in maternal plasma; Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR); Preeclampsia

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL PLASMA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SRY GENE; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

ARTERIES; DNA; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS;

EID: 33749487080     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1504     Document Type: Article

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