Twin-twin transfusion syndrome modeling

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1101, Issue , 2007, Pages 215-234

  Van Den Wijngaard, Jeroen P H M ^a   Ross, Michael G ^b   Van Gemert, Martin J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal umbilical flows; Mathematical model; Quintero staging sequence; Twin twin transfusion syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PULSE WAVE; SIMULATION; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; AMNION FLUID; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; FEMALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 34250619656     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1389.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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