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Transition from Fetal to Neonatal Circulation

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Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care

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This chapter will review the transition from the fetal to the neonatal circulation. First, it will describe the prenatal hemodynamics throughout gestation in the developing fetus with a normal heart. Second, it will compare hemodynamics of the normal fetus with the flow patterns and distribution of cardiac output in the fetus with structural cardiac defects, concentrating on severe and ductal-dependent cardiac anomalies. Third, it will describe the postnatal hemodynamics with implications for neonatal management of the infant with structural cardiac defects.

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    Bettina Cuneo

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  1. Dept. of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital Colorado, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA

    Eduardo M. Da Cruz

  2. Dept. Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital Colorado, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA

    Dunbar Ivy

  3. Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA

    James Jaggers

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Cuneo, B. (2014). Transition from Fetal to Neonatal Circulation. In: Da Cruz, E., Ivy, D., Jaggers, J. (eds) Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4619-3_155

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