Can patients with pulmonary hypertension travel to high altitude?

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-219

  Luks, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

High altitude; High altitude pulmonary edema; Hypoxia; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

VASODILATOR AGENT;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEART FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PULMONARY EDEMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 70349503561     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.10306     Document Type: Review

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