Longitudinal study of umbilical and portal venous blood flow to the fetal liver: Low pregnancy weight gain is associated with preferential supply to the fetal left liver lobe

Pediatric Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 315-320

  Kessler, Jörg ^a,b   Rasmussen, Svein ^a,b   Godfrey, Keith ^c   Hanson, Mark ^c   Kiserud, Torvid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DUCTUS VENOSUS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; FETUS WEIGHT; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICAL VEIN;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; UMBILICAL VEINS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 39749133638     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e318163a1de     Document Type: Article

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