Current aspects of fetal cardiovascular function

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-84

  Matsui, Hikoro ^a   Gardiner, Helena ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART SIZE; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PULSE WAVE; REVIEW; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

EID: 43649105327     PISSN: 09655395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0965539508002118     Document Type: Review

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