Trends in prenatal diagnosis of critical cardiac defects in an integrated obstetric and pediatric cardiac imaging center

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 674-678

  Cuneo, Bettina F ^a,b   Curran, Letitia F ^c   Davis, Nancy ^d   Elrad, Haim ^c  

^a Heart Institute for Children   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Advocate Hth Care Ofc of Med Educ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATIENT CARE; PERINATOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 8644276306     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211168     Document Type: Article

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