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The Influence of Birth on the Weights of the Left and Right Cardiac Ventricles in Prematurely Born Infants
Author(s) -
MITHAL AVINASH,
EMERY JOHN L.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1961.tb08167.x
Subject(s) - medicine , left ventricles , cardiology , ventricle
Summary The mean ventricular weights of prematurely born infants who had lived for five or more days were compared with the mean ventricular weights of stillborns of equal crown rump lengths. The left ventricular weights suggest that there has already been some hypertrophy over that which would have occurred in vtero . The right ventricle growth continued at the same rate as would have occurred had the child remained in vtero .