Fetal Doppler: Umbilical Artery, Middle Cerebral Artery, and Venous System

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 253-257

  Mari, Giancarlo ^a   Hanif, Farhan ^b  

^a MidSouth Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler; ductus venosus; feat anemia; IUGR; middle cerebral artery

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DUCTUS VENOSUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL VEIN; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

ANEMIA; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PLACENTAL INSUFFICIENCY; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 47349106641     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2008.04.007     Document Type: Review

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