Point:Counterpoint: Pulmonary edema does/does not occur in human athletes performing heavy sea-level exercise

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1270-1272

  Hopkins, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LUNG; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PULMONARY EDEMA; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149314265     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01353.2009     Document Type: Note

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