The fetal cardiovascular response to increased placental vascular impedance to flow determined with 4-dimensional ultrasound using spatiotemporal image correlation and virtual organ computer-aided analysis

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153.e1-153.e13

  Hamill, Neil ^a,b   Romero, Roberto ^a   Hassan, Sonia ^a,b   Lee, Wesley ^c   Myers, Stephen A ^d   Mittal, Pooja ^a,b   Kusanovic, Juan Pedro ^a,b   Balasubramaniam, Mamtha ^c   Chaiworapongsa, Tinnakorn ^a,b   Vaisbuch, Edi ^a,b   Espinoza, Jimmy ^a,b   Gotsch, Francesca ^a   Goncalves, Luis F ^a,b   Mazaki Tovi, Shali ^a,b   Erez, Offer ^a,b   Hernandez Andrade, Edgar ^a,b   Yeo, Lami ^a,b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d The MetroHealth System   (United States)

Author keywords

3 dimensional; 4 dimensional; cardiac function; cardiac output; contour finder; ejection fraction; fetal echocardiography; fetus; intrauterine growth restriction; prenatal diagnosis; sonography; spatiotemporal image correlation; STIC; stroke volume; umbilical artery Doppler; ventricular volume; virtual organ computer aided analysis; VOCAL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

EID: 84872865075     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2012.11.043     Document Type: Article

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