Evaluation of fetal cardiac contractility by two-dimensional ultrasonography

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 799-803

  Goldinfeld, Michael ^a   Weiner, Ehud ^b   Peleg, David ^a   Shalev, Eliezer ^b,c   Ben Ami, Moshe ^a,c  

^a Poriya Hospital   (Israel)

^b HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fetal echocardiography; Fetus; Shortening fraction; Two dimensional ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; NOMOGRAM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 7944219543     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.880     Document Type: Article

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