Single umbilical artery
The umbilical cord usually contains two arteries and one vein. The vein carries the oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus. The arteries carry the deoxygenated blood and the waste products from the fetus to the placenta. Occasionally, primary agenesis or secondary atrophy of one of the arte...
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author | Shanthi Ramesh Sangeetha Hariprasath Gunasekaran Anandan P John Solomon V Vijayakumar |
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description | The umbilical cord usually contains two arteries and one vein. The vein carries the oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus. The arteries carry the deoxygenated blood and the waste products from the fetus to the placenta. Occasionally, primary agenesis or secondary atrophy of one of the arteries occurs resulting in single umbilical artery. |
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spelling | doaj.art-a094e38f9a9941d3930eda474e503be32022-12-21T19:11:44ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences0975-74060976-48792015-01-0175838410.4103/0975-7406.155815Single umbilical arteryShanthi RameshSangeetha HariprasathGunasekaran AnandanP John SolomonV VijayakumarThe umbilical cord usually contains two arteries and one vein. The vein carries the oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus. The arteries carry the deoxygenated blood and the waste products from the fetus to the placenta. Occasionally, primary agenesis or secondary atrophy of one of the arteries occurs resulting in single umbilical artery.http://www.jpbsonline.org/article.asp?issn=0975-7406;year=2015;volume=7;issue=5;spage=83;epage=84;aulast=RameshCongenital anomaliessingle umbilical arterytwo vessel umbilical cord |
spellingShingle | Shanthi Ramesh Sangeetha Hariprasath Gunasekaran Anandan P John Solomon V Vijayakumar Single umbilical artery Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences Congenital anomalies single umbilical artery two vessel umbilical cord |
title | Single umbilical artery |
title_full | Single umbilical artery |
title_fullStr | Single umbilical artery |
title_full_unstemmed | Single umbilical artery |
title_short | Single umbilical artery |
title_sort | single umbilical artery |
topic | Congenital anomalies single umbilical artery two vessel umbilical cord |
url | http://www.jpbsonline.org/article.asp?issn=0975-7406;year=2015;volume=7;issue=5;spage=83;epage=84;aulast=Ramesh |
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