Fetal cardiac interventions: Worth it?

Heart

Volumn 95, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 1653-1655

  Simpson, J M ^a  

^a EVELINA LONDON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

AORTA BALLOON; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BRADYCARDIA; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVOR; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FETAL HEART; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; PRENATAL CARE; PULMONARY ATRESIA;

EID: 70349619408     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2008.160739     Document Type: Review

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