Small for gestational age preterm infants and relationship of abnormal umbilical artery Doppler blood flow to perinatal mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-58

  Shand, Antonia W ^a,b   Hornbuckle, Janet ^a,b   Nathan, Elizabeth ^c   Dickinson, Jan E ^a,c   French, Noel P ^a,c  

^a CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Women and Infants Research Foundation   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental disability; Doppler ultrasonography; Fetal ultrasonography; Intrauterine growth retardation; Pregnancy outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL ARTERY DISEASE; AUSTRALIA; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66549083621     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2008.00941.x     Document Type: Article

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