Inhaled nitric oxide for high-altitude pulmonary edema

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 624-629

  Scherrer, Urs ^a   Vollenweider, Laurent ^b   Delabays, Alain ^a   Savcic, Milos ^a   Eichenberger, Urs ^c   Kleger, Gian Reto ^c   Fikrle, Antonin ^c   Ballmer, Peter E ^c   Nicod, Pascal ^a   Bärtsch, Peter ^d  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PULMONARY EDEMA;

EID: 13344278712     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199603073341003     Document Type: Article

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