Role of echocardiography in the assessment and management of adult congenital heart disease in pregnancy

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 843-857

  Vitarelli, Antonio ^a   Capotosto, Lidia ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adult congenital heart disease; Color Doppler; Echocardiography; Pregnancy; Tissue doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; BLOOD VOLUME; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY VASCULAR OBSTRUCTIVE DISEASE; STROKE; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 83955165990     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-010-9750-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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