Hypoxic ventilatory response, ventilation, gas exchange, and fluid balance in acute mountain sickness

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 361-376

  Bärtsch, Peter ^a   Swenson, Erik R ^a   Paul, André ^a   Jülg, Bernhard ^a   Hohenhaus, Elke ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Blood gas analysis; High altitude; High altitude pulmonary edema; Hypercapnic ventilatory response; Renal function; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; SODIUM;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIURESIS; FLUID BALANCE; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NATRIURESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; URINE VOLUME; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0036932486     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/15270290260512846     Document Type: Article

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