Abnormal arterial flows by a distributed model of the fetal circulation

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Van Den Wijngaard, Jeroen P H M ^a   Westerhof, Berend E ^a   Faber, Dirk J ^a   Ramsay, Margaret M ^b   Westerhof, Nico ^c   Van Gemert, Martin J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fetal pulsating arterial blood flow; Mathematical model; Pulsatility index

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS CIRCULATION; HEART RATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

ARTERIES; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BRADYCARDIA; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TACHYCARDIA; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 33751193897     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00212.2006     Document Type: Article

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