Evidence supportive of impaired myocardial blood flow reserve at high altitude in subjects developing high-altitude pulmonary edema

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kaufmann, B A ^a   Bernheim, A M ^a   Kiencke, S ^a   Fischler, M ^b   Sklenar, J ^c   Mairbaurl H ^d   Maggiorini, M ^b   Brunner La Rocca, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Exercise; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; TADALAFIL;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CARBOLINES; DEXAMETHASONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PULMONARY EDEMA; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATION;

EID: 41749118958     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00760.2007     Document Type: Article

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