A catecholamine crisis on Mount Kilimanjaro: A hypoxia effect?

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 424-426

  Ayala Ramirez, Montserrat ^a   Amir Habra, Mouhammed ^a   Busaidy, Naifa ^a   Cote, Gilbert ^a   Rich, Thereasa ^a   Waguespack, Steven ^a   Jimenez, Camilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; NORMETADRENALIN; SUNITINIB;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PANIC; PARAGANGLIOMA; THORAX PAIN;

ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BONE NEOPLASMS; CATECHOLAMINES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMETANEPHRINE; PARAGANGLIOMA; TANZANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78349286931     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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