Changing indications for fetal echocardiography in a university center population

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 781-786

  Friedberg, Mark K ^a,b   Silverman, Norman H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Pediatric Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Fetal; Indications; Obstetrics; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

TERATOGENIC AGENT;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG ATRESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 7944220438     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.981     Document Type: Review

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