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Changing physiology in the first- to third-trimester foetal circulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2014

Joanna Dangel*
Affiliation:
2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perinatal Cardiology Clinic, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
*
Correspondence to: Professor J. Dangel, 2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perinatal Cardiology Clinic, Medical University if Warsaw, 00-315 Warsaw, Poland. Tel: 48-22-5966167; Fax: 48-22-5966474; E-mail: jdangel@wum.edu.pl

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© Cambridge University Press 2014 

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