Cerebral blood flow autoregulation and congenital heart disease: Possible causes of abnormal prenatal neurologic development

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1208-1211

  Arduini, Maurizio ^a   Rosati, Paolo ^b   Caforio, Leonardo ^b   Guariglia, Lorenzo ^b   Clerici, Graziano ^a   Di Renzo, Gian Carlo ^a   Scambia, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular circulation; Congenital heart disease; Fetal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BIOMETRY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN VASCULAR RESISTANCE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS OUTCOME; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; PRENATAL DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

BIOMETRY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80052988203     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2010.547961     Document Type: Article

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