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Placental oxygen transfer and the oxygen supply to the fetus

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2000

Anthony M Carter
Anthony M Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark
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Abstract

Some babies are hypoxic at birth, yet suffer no ill effects, whilst others have a poor prognosis. To understand why this is so, we need to consider the factors that determine fetal oxygen supply and how the fetus copes with any decrease in oxygen delivery.

Type
Research Article
Information
Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , August 1999 , pp. 151 - 161
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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