Indications for fetal echocardiography high referral, low yield?

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 405-415

  Davey, Brooke T ^a   Seubert, David E ^a   Phoon, Colin K L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; PROGESTERONE;

ARTERY MALFORMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; REVIEW; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; ADULT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 68249144969     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e31819f9d7b     Document Type: Review

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