Blood gases, hematology, and renal blood flow during prolonged mountain sojourns at 3500 and 5800 m

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 5 I, 2003, Pages 533-536

  Singh, M V ^b   Salhan, A K ^b   Rawal, S B ^a   Tyagi, A K ^b   Kumar, N ^b   Verma, S S ^b   Selvamurthy, W ^b  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Effective renal blood flow; Effective renal plasma flow; Extreme altitude; Humans; Prolonged stay

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD PH; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FLUID RETENTION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; INDIA; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY PLASMA FLOW; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; RENAL CIRCULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0038754151     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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