Fetal cardiac muscle contractility decreases with gestational age: A color-coded tissue velocity imaging study

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Elmstedt, Nina ^a   Ferm Widlund, Kjerstin ^b   Lind, Britta ^a   Brodin, Lars Åke ^a   Westgren, Magnus ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular plane displacement; Color coded tissue velocity imaging; Fetal heart contractility; Intrauterine development; Longitudinal shortening

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HEART CONTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84860854449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-10-19     Document Type: Article

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