Characterization of ventricular myocardial performance in the fetus by tissue Doppler imaging

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 943-947

  Watanabe, Sayaka ^a   Hashimoto, Ikuo ^a   Saito, Kazuyoshi ^a   Watanabe, Kazuhiro ^a   Hirono, Keiichi ^a   Uese, Keiichiro ^a   Ichida, Fukiko ^a   Saito, Shigeru ^a   Miyawaki, Toshio ^a   Niemann, Petra ^b   Sahn, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal cardiac function; Hydrops fetalis; Intrauterine growth retardation; Peak annular velocity; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FETUS HYDROPS; FLOW RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYDROPS FETALIS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 65649146048     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0529     Document Type: Article

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