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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Canadilla P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6588274 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garcia-Canadilla Patricia P de Vries Tom T Gonzalez-Tendero Anna A Bonnin Anne A Gratacos Eduard E Crispi Fatima F Bijnens Bart B Zhang Chong C
PloS one 20190621 6
Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a fetal condition that affects up to 10% of all pregnancies and is associated with cardiovascular structural and functional remodelling that persists postnatally. Some studies have reported an increase in myocardial coronary blood flow in severe IUGR fetuses which has been directly associated to the dilatation of the coronary arteries. However, a direct measurement of the coronaries' lumen diameter in IUGR has not been reported before. The aim of this pa ...[more]