Comparative study of transabdominal and transvaginal uterine artery doppler pulsatility indices at 1113 + 6 weeks

Hypertension in Pregnancy

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-420

  Plasencia, Walter ^a   Barber, Miguel A ^a   Alvarez, Eva E ^a   Segura, Javier ^a   Valle, Leonor ^a   Garcia Hernandez, Jose A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Doppler; First trimester; Pulsatility index; Ultrasound; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PLACENTA PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PULSATILITY INDEX; SCREENING; SMOKING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE CERVIX;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 80053463930     PISSN: 10641955     EISSN: 15256065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641955.2010.506232     Document Type: Article

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