High-altitude-induced right-heart failure

Circulation

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Huez, Sandrine ^a   Faoro, Vitalie ^a   Vachiéry, Jean Luc ^a   Unger, Philippe ^a   Martinot, Jean Benoit ^b   Naeije, Robert ^a,c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b Clinique & Maternite Sainte Elisabeth Namer   (Belgium)

^c Erasmus Campus ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASODILATATION; ACUTE DISEASE; BOLIVIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BOLIVIA; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33947608480     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.650994     Document Type: Article

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