Renal interlobar vein impedance index: A potential new Doppler parameter in the prediction of preeclampsia?

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1219-1221

  Gyselaers, Wilfried ^a,b   Mesens, Tinne ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; LIVER ENZYME; URIC ACID; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ARTERY WALL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART OUTPUT; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL SERUM; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RENAL INTERLOBAR VEIN IMPEDANCE INDEX; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOPHILIA; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WEIGHT;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RENAL VEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 73949145600     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767050903019635     Document Type: Letter

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