Changes in the size of maternal inferior vena cava during pregnancy

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 327-331

  Ryo, Eiji ^a,c   Unno, Nobuya ^b   Nagasaka, Tsuneki ^a   Taketani, Yuji ^b  

^a MUSASHINO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood volume; Inferior vena cava; Pregnancy; Ultrasonography; Underfilling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY POSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 3543003507     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2004.061     Document Type: Article

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