Chronic mountain sickness: Recent studies of the relationship between hemoglobin concentration and oxygen transport

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-155

  Reeves, John T ^a   Leon Velarde, Fabiola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Altitude residents; Arterial oxygen saturation; Cardiac output; Venous oxygen saturation

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; THEORY; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXEMIA; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 4043143006     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1527029041352090     Document Type: Article

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