Doppler velocimetry of normal human fetal venous intrapulmonary branches

• Published in: Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 247 - 254
• Main Authors: Laudy, J. A. M., Ursem, N. T. C., Mulder, P. G. H., Wladimiroff, J. W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01.04.1999; Wiley
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Blood Flow Velocity; color Doppler; Cross-Sectional Studies; Doppler velocimetry; Female; Fetal Monitoring - methods; Fetus - physiology; Gestational Age; Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics; human fetus; Humans; Laser-Doppler Flowmetry; Management. Prenatal diagnosis; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Trimester, Second; Pregnancy. Fetus. Placenta; Pulmonary Circulation - physiology; Pulmonary Veins - diagnostic imaging; Pulmonary Veins - embryology; pulmonary venous blood flow; Pulsatile Flow; Reference Values; repeatability; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color; Ultrasonography, Prenatal - methods; Sonography; Doppler ultrasound study; Waveform; Human; Venous blood; Exploration; Blood flow; Pregnancy; Prenatal; Fetus; Flow velocity; Diagnosis; Pulmonary vein

Objectives To describe the nature of flow velocity wave‐forms from fetal middle and distal venous pulmonary branches in the second half of normal pregnancy in relation to gestation, and to test repeatability and interrelationships of flow velocity waveform recordings from proximal, middle and distal...