Diving-induced venous gas emboli do not increase pulmonary artery pressure

International Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 626-631

  Valic, Z ^a   Duplancic D ^b   Bakovic D ^a   Ivancev V ^a   Eterovic D ^a   Wislooff U ^c,d   Brubakk, A O ^d   Dujić, Željko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Humans; Hyperbaric chamber; Simulated diving; Ultrasonographic imaging

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERBARISM; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PULMONARY VALVE; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIVING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 26444465038     PISSN: 01724622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-830379     Document Type: Article

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