Isolated left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia: Cardiac axis and displacement before fetal viability has no role in predicting postnatal outcome

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 322-326

  Kalache, Karim D ^a,b   Mkhitaryan, Monika ^a   Bamberg, Christian ^a   Roehr, Charles Christoph ^a   Wauer, Roland ^a   Mau, Harald ^a   Bollmann, Rainer ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Echocardiography; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34247170803     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1669     Document Type: Article

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