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Venous Hemodynamics

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In recent years evaluation of the venous system has become a compulsory part of the haemodynamic assessment of the fetus, but the underlying mechanisms of our Doppler recordings are still incompletely understood. The present chapter is not intended to solve all that, but rather to address important hemodynamic issues from a clinical point of view to help clinicians use and interpret venous Doppler recordings. For the interested reader more extensive discussions of blood flow dynamics are available in the literature [1–5]

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Kiserud, T. (2005). Venous Hemodynamics. In: Maulik, D. (eds) Doppler Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28903-8_5

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