The Polish National Registry for Fetal Cardiac Pathology: Organization, diagnoses, management, educational aspects and telemedicine endeavors

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 456-460

  Slodki, Maciej ^a   Szymkiewicz Dangel, Joanna ^b   Tobota, Zdzislaw ^b   Seligman, Neil S ^c   Weiner, Stuart ^c   Respondek Liberska, Maria ^a  

^a POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DELIVERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOLOGY; POLAND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; TELEMEDICINE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; POLAND; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; TELEMEDICINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84860732683     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.3838     Document Type: Article

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