High-grade bubbles in left and right heart in an asymptomatic diver at rest after surfacing

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 626-628

  Bakovic, Darija ^a   Glavas, Duska ^b   Palada, Ivan ^a   Breskovic, Toni ^a   Fabijanic, Damir ^b   Obad, Ante ^a   Valic, Zoran ^a   Brubakk, Alf O ^c   Dujic, Zeljko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arterialization; Decompression sickness; SCUBA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVER; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PULMONARY SHUNT; REST; RR INTERVAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 44449125267     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2244.2008     Document Type: Article

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