Ductus venosus Doppler at 11 to 13 weeks of gestation in the prediction of outcome in twin pregnancies

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 860-865

  Maiz, Nerea ^a   Staboulidou, Ismini ^a   Leal, Antonio M ^a   Minekawa, Ryoko ^a   Nicolaides, Kypros H ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DUCTUS VENOSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN PREGNANCY; ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MORTALITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEMODYNAMICS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSATILE FLOW; RECURRENT ABORTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TWINS; VASCULARIZATION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL MORTALITY; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 65649154479     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31819c9f66     Document Type: Article

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