Prenatal diagnosis and treatment planning of congenital heart defects - Possibilities and limits

World Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-22

  Nelle, Mathias ^a,b   Raio, Luigi ^a   Pavlovic, Mladen ^a   Carrel, Thierry ^a   Surbek, Daniel ^a   Meyer Wittkopf, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Fetal echocardiography; Inutero cardiac palliation; Postnatal intervention; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETOSCOPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 59349090948     PISSN: 17088569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12519-009-0003-8     Document Type: Article

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