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Original Article

The impact of total bile acid levels on fetal cardiac function in intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy using fetal echocardiography: a tissue Doppler imaging study

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Pages 1445-1450 | Received 16 Jan 2015, Accepted 11 May 2015, Published online: 11 Jun 2015

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