Intraocular pressure during a very high altitude climb

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1609-1613

  Bosch, Martina M ^a   Barthelmes, Daniel ^a   Merz, Tobias M ^b   Truffer, Frederic ^c   Knecht, Pascal B ^a   Petrig, Benno ^c   Bloch, Konrad E ^a,d   Hefti, Urs ^e   Schubiger, Gregor ^f   Landau, Klara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Institut de Recherche en Ophtalmologie   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Liestal Hospital   (Switzerland)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; OPTIC DISK; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 77949898573     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4306     Document Type: Article

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