Medical progress: Heat stroke

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 346, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 1978-1988

  Bouchama, Abderrezak ^a   Knochel, James P ^b  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; COOLING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERMOREGULATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD CLOTTING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; FEVER; HEAT INJURY; METABOLISM; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CYTOKINES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEVER; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HEAT STROKE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE;

EID: 0037141830     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra011089     Document Type: Review

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