Morphological and physiological predictors of fetal aortic coarctation

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 1793-1801

  Matsui, Hikoro ^a,b   Mellander, Mats ^b,c   Roughton, Michael ^b   Jicinska, Hana ^b   Gardiner, Helena M ^a,b  

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

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coarctation; Fetus; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART INJURY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; Z SCORE;

AORTIC COARCTATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 56549124178     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.787598     Document Type: Article

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