Effective counselling of pre-natal diagnosis of serious heart disease - An aid to maternal bonding?

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 470-474

  Menahem, Samuel ^a,b   Grimwade, James ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fetal cardiac abnormality; Heart abnormality; Maternal bonding; Prenatal counselling

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; COUNSELING; FETUS; HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRASOUND;

COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 8344285851     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080156     Document Type: Review

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