Impact of congenital heart disease on fetal brain development and injury

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 502-511

  Donofrio, Mary T ^a   Duplessis, Adré J ^a   Limperopoulos, Catherine ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

leaflet; mitral; papillary muscle; tricuspid; valve regurgitation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; AUTOREGULATION; BIOMETRY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOMALACIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHOREOATHETOSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSPHAGIA; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MICROCEPHALY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; STANDARD; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052682672     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32834aa583     Document Type: Article

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