Retinal vessel diameters in relation to hematocrit variation during acclimatization of highlanders to sea level altitude

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3960-3963

  Kofoed, Peter Kristian ^a   Sander, Birgit ^a   Zubieta Calleja, Gustavo ^a,b   Kessel, Line ^a   Larsen, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b High Altitude Pathology Institute   (Bolivia)

^c JOHN F KENNEDY INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BOLIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; RETINOPATHY; SEA LEVEL; VEIN DIAMETER; ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ACUITY;

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OXYGEN; RETINAL VESSELS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 68349109605     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3217     Document Type: Article

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