Signs of fetal brain sparing are not related to umbilical cord blood gases at birth

Early Human Development

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 467-470

  Cheema, Riffat ^a   Dubiel, Mariusz ^b   Gudmundsson, Saemundur ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Apgar score; Brain sparing; Cord blood gases; Middle cerebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CESAREAN SECTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS HYPOXIA; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEWBORN CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRENATAL PERIOD; PULSATILE FLOW; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HYPOXIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK;

EID: 67349144670     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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