Controversies of fetal cardiac intervention

Early Human Development

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 149-153

  Pavlovic, Mladen ^a,b   Acharya, Ganesh ^a,c   Huhta, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Fetal intervention; Hypoplastic left heart syndrome; Pulmonary atresia

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REVIEW;

FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PULMONARY ATRESIA;

EID: 41149083358     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2008.01.006     Document Type: Review

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