The role of the right ventricle during hypobaric hypoxic exercise: Insights from patients after the Fontan operation

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 269-276

  Garcia, Jorge A ^b   McMinn, Susan B ^b   Zuckerman, Julie H ^b   Fixler, David E ^b   Levine, Benjamin D ^a  

^a Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Dallas   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Altitude; Congenital heart disease; Exercise; Fontan; Hypoxia; Right ventricle

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FUROSEMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 0033043896     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199902000-00011     Document Type: Article

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