Fetal heart failure

Frontiers in Bioscience - Scholar

Volumn 2 S, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 891-906

  Ojala, Tiina H ^a,b   Hornberger, Lisa K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Fetal echocardiography; Fetus; Hydrops fetalis; Prenatal diagnosis; Review

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FETUS HYDROPS; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDROPS FETALIS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77956644354     PISSN: 19450516     EISSN: 19450524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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