Utility of two-dimensional echocardiography in pregnancy and post-partum period and impact on management in an inner city hospital

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 663-668

  Dharmarajan, Lekshmi ^a   Hale, Theodore M ^a   Velastegui, Zoila ^b   Castillo, Emerita ^b   Kanna, Balavenkatesh ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Graduate Medical Education (GME)   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriateness for echocardiography; Echocardiography in pregnancy; Utility of echocardiography in pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT CODING; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; NEW YORK CITY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74949144161     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2009.137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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