Exercise-induced intrapulmonary shunting of venous gas emboli does not occur after open-sea diving

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 944-949

  Dujić, Željko ^a   Palada, Ivan ^a   Obad, Ante ^a   Duplančić, Darko ^a   Brubakk, Alf O ^b   Valic, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Echocardiography; Human; Maximal oxygen consumption

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BREATHING; COUGHING; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EXERCISE; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; MALE; MONITORING; NERVE CELL LESION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; EXERCISE; EXERTION; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; VEINS;

EID: 24044545540     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01431.2004     Document Type: Article

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