Persistent fetal circulation
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Persistent transitional circulation.
Brown, R., and Pickering, D. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 883. Persistent transitional circulation. Six infants presented within 24 hours of birth with cyanosis. The clinical findings, combined with catheter studies in 4 cases, led to the conclusion that there was a persistent fetal direction of ductus arteriosus flow with pulmonary hypertension, i.e. a 'persistent transitional...
متن کاملThe fetal circulation.
Accumulating data on the human fetal circulation shows the similarity to the experimental animal physiology, but with important differences. The human fetus seems to circulate less blood through the placenta, shunt less through the ductus venosus and foramen ovale, but direct more blood through the lungs than the fetal sheep. However, there are substantial individual variations and the pattern ...
متن کاملThe fetal circulation
different from the adult circulation. In the fetus, gas exchange does not occur in the lungs but in the placenta. The placenta must therefore receive deoxygenated blood from the fetal systemic organs and return its oxygen rich venous drainage to the fetal systemic arterial circulation. In addition, the fetal cardiovascular system is designed in such a way that the most highly oxygenated blood i...
متن کاملProfessor Charles D Meigs (1792-1869) of Philadelphia and persistent fetal circulation.
Charles Delucena Meigs was born in Bermuda in 1792. In 1799 the family moved from New Haven to Athens, Georgia, when his father was appointed president of the college there. Charles graduated in classics at the University of Georgia in 1809. His health was delicate so he then took a year off learning to ride and shoot with the Indians in Cherokee country. Next he studied medicine in Augusta, Ge...
متن کاملOcclusion of peripheral pulmonary vascular bed in a baby with idiopathic persistent fetal circulation.
Babies with a normal heart and persistence of the fetal circulation are frequently referred to the cardiologist because they present with severe cyanosis in the absence of parenchymal lung disease. Persistence of the fetal circulation may be associated with birth asphyxia, polycythaemia, hypoglycaemia,l and premature closure of the ductus arteriosus.2 Occasionally, however, no "trigger" factor ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Paediatrics & Child Health
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1205-7088,1918-1485
DOI: 10.1093/pch/6.10.744