High-altitude medicine

Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-12

  Paralikar, Swapnil ^a   Paralikar, Jagdish ^b  

^a Baroda Medical College   (India)

^b Baroda Textile Effects Limited   (India)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; acute mountain sickness; high altitude; high altitude cerebral edema; high altitude illnesses; high altitude pulmonary edema

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HEMOGLOBIN; IBUPROFEN; NIFEDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYGEN; PROMETHAZINE;

ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN EDEMA; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HEADACHE; HEART OUTPUT; HEMATOPOIESIS; HIGH ALTITUDE CEREBRAL EDEMA; HIGH ALTITUDE PULMONARY EDEMA; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VENTILATION; MITOCHONDRION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPHYLAXIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SLEEP; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 77956018352     PISSN: 09732284     EISSN: 19983670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5278.64608     Document Type: Review

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