Stress doppler echocardiography for identification of susceptibility to high altitude pulmonary edema

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 980-987

  Grünig, Ekkehard ^a   Mereles, Derliz ^a   Hildebrandt, Wulf ^a   Swenson, Erik R ^a   Kübler, Wolfgang ^a   Kuecherer, Helmut ^a   Bärtsch, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EDEMA; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; RISK FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0343619355     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00633-6     Document Type: Article

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