Outcome of fetal echocardiography: A 17 year single-institution experience in Japan

Pediatrics International

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 634-638

  Matsumoto, Ayumi ^a   Aoyagi, Yoshimichi ^a   Mitomo, Masaki ^a   Endo, Kisei ^a   Mochizuki, Izumi ^a   Kaneko, Mariko ^a   Fukuda, Yutaka ^a   Momoi, Nobuo ^a   Hosoya, Mitsuaki ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

congenital heart disease; duct patency; fetal echocardiography; prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ABORTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL MORTALITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STILLBIRTH;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84867033190     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2012.03639.x     Document Type: Article

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