First and early second trimester fetal heart screening

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 183-190

  Yagel, Simcha ^a   Cohen, Sarah M ^a   Messing, Baruch ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Developmental malformations; Fetal echocardiography; Fetal heart; First trimester; Four dimensional ultrasound; Prenatal diagnosis; Prenatal screening; Spatio temporal image correlation; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FETUS HEART RATE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33947172744     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e3280895de6     Document Type: Review

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