Prenatal diagnosis of cardiac defects: Accuracy and benefit

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 450-455

  Clur, S A ^a,b   Van Brussel, P M ^a   Ottenkamp, J ^a,b   Bilardo, C M ^c,d  

^a EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b The Centre for Congenital Heart Anomalies Amsterdam Leiden (CAHAL)   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEXTROCARDIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FETUS; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; KARYOTYPE; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYOCARDITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME;

COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84860711169     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.3837     Document Type: Article

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