The relationship between fetal inferior vena cava diameter pulse and flow velocity waveforms in normal and compromised pregnancies

Early Human Development

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-135

  Akira, Mori ^a   Noa, Uchida ^a   Atsuko, Togo ^a   Kanako, Mitsuzuka ^a   Mikio, Mikami ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Inferior vena cava; Ultrasonic echo tracking; Umbilical placental insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DIAMETER;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PLACENTAL INSUFFICIENCY; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 38949101626     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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