Chest Sonography Detects Lung Water Accumulation in Healthy Elite Apnea Divers

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1150-1155

  Frassi, Francesca ^a   Pingitore, Alessandro ^a   Cialoni, Danilo ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Apnea; Diving; Ultrasound lung comets

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LUNG EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND LUNG COMET; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; APNEA; DIVING; EXTRAVASCULAR LUNG WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PULMONARY EDEMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 53149116738     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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