Prenatal course of isolated muscular ventricular septal defects diagnosed only by color Doppler sonography: Single-institution experience

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 715-720

  Bahtiyar, Mert Ozan ^a   Dulay, Antonette T ^a   Weeks, Bevin P ^a   Friedman, Alan H ^a   Copel, Joshua A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defect; Isolated; Ventricular septal defect

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER EFFECT; RISK PERCEPTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

COLOR DOPPLER; COLOR DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS; FIRST TRIMESTERS; HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND; ISOLATED; RISK ESTIMATES; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT;

COLOR;

ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN TRIPLETS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TRISOMY; TWIN PREGNANCY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWINS;

COHORT STUDIES; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEART; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRIPLETS; TWINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 45849106162     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2008.27.5.715     Document Type: Article

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