Serial changes in spirometry during an ascent to 5300 m in the Nepalese Himalayas

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 185-195

  Mason, Nicholas P ^a   Barry, Peter W ^b   Pollard, Andrew J ^c   Collier, David J ^d   Taub, Nicholas A ^b   Miller, Martin R ^e   Milledge, James S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e SELLY OAK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Altitude; Pulmonary oedema; Respiratory tract; Ventilatory function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0034279787     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/15270290050144181     Document Type: Article

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