High-altitude pulmonary edema: A clinical analysis

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 70-76

  Angerio, Allan D ^b   Kot, Peter A ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

acute mountain sickness; atrial natriuretic factor; calcium antagonists; endothelin; high altitude; pulmonary edema; pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; ENDOTHELIN;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; FATALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LUNG EDEMA; MOUNTAINEERING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIING;

EID: 0029912036     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-199619030-00007     Document Type: Review

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