Arterio-venous flow between monochorionic twins determined during intra-uterine transfusion

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Van Gemert, Martin J C ^a   Van Den Wijngaard, Jeroen P H M ^a,b   Lopriore, Enrico ^c   Pasman, Suzanne A ^c   Vandenbussche, Frank P H A ^c  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; HEMOGLOBIN; LASER APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

LASER THERAPY; MONOZYGOTIC (IDENTICAL) TWIN FETUSES; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME (TTTS);

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; ARTERIOVENOUS FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; ERYTHROCYTE LIFESPAN; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONOCHORIONIC TWINS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS; TWINS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 42449091167     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/7/N02     Document Type: Article

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