Cardio-pulmonary interactions at high altitude: Pulmonary hypertension as a common denominator

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 543, Issue , 2003, Pages 177-189

  Maggiorini, Marco ^a  

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Author keywords

Chronic mountain sickness; High altitude; High altitude pulmonary edema; Monge disease; Pulmonary hypertension; Right heart failure; Subacute mountain sickness

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANASARCA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DYSPNEA; HIGH ALTITUDE PULMONARY EDEMA; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

EID: 0842270036     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8997-0_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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