Umbilical Artery Doppler in the Assessment of Fetal Growth Restriction

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-82

  Maulik, Dev ^a   Mundy, David ^a   Heitmann, Erica ^a   Maulik, Devika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based practice; Fetal growth restriction; Randomized trials; Umbilical artery Doppler

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAPARTUM CARE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UMBILICAL ARTERY DOPPLER;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 79951841886     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2010.12.004     Document Type: Review

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