High Altitude During Pregnancy

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-31

  Julian, Colleen Glyde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Fetal growth; Hypoxia; Preeclampsia; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; FETUS GROWTH; HEMODILUTION; HUMAN; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG VENTILATION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REVIEW; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW;

ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; OXYGEN; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 79251497335     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2010.10.008     Document Type: Review

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