A longitudinal study of the relationship between maternal cardiac output measured by impedance cardiography and uterine artery blood flow in the second half of pregnancy

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 837-844

  Flo, K ^a,b   Wilsgaard, T ^a   Vartun A ^a   Acharya, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Pregnancy; Uterine artery blood flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NORWAY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952281721     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2010.02548.x     Document Type: Article

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