Hypoxia-induced acute mountain sickness is associated with intracellular cerebral edema: A 3 T magnetic resonance imaging study

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 198-206

  Schoonman, Guus G ^a,b   Sándor, Peter S ^b   Nirkko, Arto C ^c   Lange, Thomas ^d   Jaermann, Thomas ^d,e   Dydak, Ulrike ^d   Kremer, Christine ^b   Ferrari, Michel D ^a   Boesiger, Peter ^d   Baumgartner, Ralf W ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebral edema; High altitude illness; Hypoxia; MR imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; WHITE MATTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37549071518     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600513     Document Type: Article

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