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Invited Lecture†: Fetal cardiac function and circulatory dynamics—the impact of Doppler echocardiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Jean-Claude Fouron
Jean-Claude Fouron*
Affiliation:
From the Department of Pediatrics, Service of Cardiology, Ste-Justine Hospital, University of Montreal, Montreal
*
Dr. Jean-Claude Fouron, Sainte-Justine HospitalCardiology Service, 3175, C^te Ste-Catherine, Montreal, Quebec H3T IC5, Canada. Tel. (514) 345-4654; Fax. (514) 345-4896.
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1996 , pp. 120 - 129
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

Footnotes

†

Lecture given to the Fetal Cardiology Working Group at the XXX Annual General Meeting of the European Paediatric Cardiology Association, Bologna, May 1995

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