Association of uterine artery Doppler resistance index and birth weight: Effect of customized birth weight standards

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 501-505

  Sankaran, Srividya ^a   Prefumo, Federico ^a   Papageorghiou, Aris ^a   Thilaganathan, Baskaran ^a   Bhide, Amarnath ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customized birth weight; Growth restriction; Uterine artery Dopplers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY DOPPLER;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROBABILITY; PULSATILE FLOW; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 67749104122     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: 10988785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1215429     Document Type: Article

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