Cerebral Blood Flow Characteristics and Biometry in Fetuses Undergoing Prenatal Intervention for Aortic Stenosis with Evolving Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-37

  McElhinney, Doff B ^a   Benson, Carol B ^b   Brown, David W ^a   Wilkins Haug, Louise E ^b   Marshall, Audrey C ^a   Zaccagnini, Linda ^a   Tworetzky, Wayne ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTIC STENOSIS; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS; FETAL HEAD; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCES; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PULSATILITY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; Z-SCORES;

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES;

BLOOD VESSELS;

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEAD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 71849090771     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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