High altitude pulmonary edema: A pressure-induced leak

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 158, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 266-273

  Dehnert, Christoph ^a   Berger, Marc Moritz ^a   Mairbäurl, Heimo ^a   Bärtsch, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endothelial dysfunction; High altitude pulmonary edema; Hypoxia; NO; Pathophysiology; Pulmonary circulation

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MICROSPHERE; NIFEDIPINE; TADALAFIL;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INDIA; JAPAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PULMONARY EDEMA;

EID: 34548661090     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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