Low pulmonary diffusing capacity in subjects with acute mountain sickness

Chest

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 58-64

  Ge, Ri Li ^a   Matsuzawa, Yukinori ^a   Takeoka, Michiko ^a   Kubo, Keishi ^a   Sekiguchi, Morie ^a   Kobayashi, Toshio ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

acute mountain sickness; blood gas; diffusion capacity; high altitude; lung volume; subclinical edema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; LUNG DIFFUSION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0031036443     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.111.1.58     Document Type: Article

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