Comments on a report of the aorto-pulmonary window (APW ) type I coexisting with pulmonary valve stenosis and occluded arterial duct, detected prenatally at 26 weeks of gestation

• Authors: Andrzej Rudziński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the article a case of a little APW coincidented with pulmonary stenosis (the first such description in Poland) in 26-week-old fetus of a thirty-two-year-old woman, gravida 3, was presented1.

Keywords

EN

prenatal echocardiography; ductus arteriosus

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Prenatal Cardiology
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 34-35

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2015

received

23 - 12 - 2015

accepted

23 - 12 - 2015

online

5 - 3 - 2016

Contributors

author

Andrzej Rudziński

• Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Poland

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/pcard-2015-0005