New insights into ocular blood flow at very high altitudes

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 454-460

  Bosch, Martina M ^a   Merz, Tobias M ^b   Barthelmes, Daniel ^a   Petrig, Benno L ^c   Truffer, Frederic ^c   Bloch, Konrad E ^a,h   Turk, Alex ^a   Maggiorini, Marco ^a,h   Hess, Thomas ^d   Schoch, Otto D ^e   Hefti, Urs ^f   Sutter, Florian K P ^a   Pichler, Jacqueline ^g   Huber, Andreas ^g   Landau, Klara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Institut de Recherche en Ophtalmologie   (Switzerland)

^d State Hospital Winterthur   (Switzerland)

^e State Hospital St Gallen   (Switzerland)

^f Liestal Hospital   (Switzerland)

^g CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Cerebral blood flow; Choroid; Retina

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; CHOROID; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANOXIA; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND; TIME; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHOROID; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HEMATOCRIT; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL VESSELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 61949243600     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.90904.2008     Document Type: Article

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