Augmented sympathetic activation during short-term hypoxia and high- altitude exposure in subjects susceptible to high-altitude pulmonary edema

Circulation

Volumn 99, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1713-1718

  Duplain, Hervé ^a   Vollenweider, Laurent ^b   Delabays, Alain ^a   Nicod, Pascal ^a   Bärtsch, Peter ^c   Scherrer, Urs ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Edema, pulmonary; Hypertension, pulmonary; Nervous system, autonomic

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

EID: 0033528699     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.99.13.1713     Document Type: Article

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