Perinatal management of pregnancies with severe fetal heart defects and epigenetic aspects

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2542-2545

  Eckmann Scholz, Christel ^a   Hoffmann, Ulrike ^a   Kramer, Hans Heiner ^a   Schollmeyer, Thoralf ^a   Schem, Christian ^a   Jonat, Walter ^a   Alkatout, Ibrahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conotruncal heart defects; Epigenetics; Hypoplastic left heart syndrome; Maternal morbidity; Preterm delivery; Preterm labour

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; BODY MASS; CONOTRUNCAL HEART DEFECT; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIGENETICS; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MORBID OBESITY; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VEIN MALFORMATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERE FETAL HEART DEFECT; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; PERINATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84870380795     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2012.703725     Document Type: Article

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