Diagnosis and management of fetal heart failure

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 759-767

  Thakur, Varsha ^a   Fouron, Jean Claude ^b   Mertens, Luc ^a   Jaeggi, Edgar T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DIGOXIN; FLECAINIDE; RITODRINE; SALBUTAMOL; SOTALOL; TERBUTALINE;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN VASCULAR RESISTANCE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CARDIOMEGALY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETAL HEART FAILURE; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS HYDROPS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RELAXATION TIME; REVIEW; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84879505283     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2013.02.001     Document Type: Review

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