Retrograde diastolic blood flow in the aortic isthmus is not a simple marker of abnormal fetal outcome in pregnancy complicated by IUGR - A pilot study

Ginekologia Polska

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 509-515

  Ropacka Lesiak, Mariola ^a   Świder Musielak, Joanna ^a   Wójcicka, Małgorzata ^a   Hamid, Anissa ^b   Brȩborowiczl, Grzegorz H ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b Klinika Sw Rodziny Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aortic isthmus; Doppler; Intrauterine growth restriction; Perinatal outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; THORACIC AORTA; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL VEIN; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 84907002101     PISSN: 00170011     EISSN: 25436767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17772/gp/1762     Document Type: Article

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