Delayed appearance of high altitude retinal hemorrhages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Barthelmes, Daniel ^a   Bosch, Martina M ^a   Merz, Tobias M ^b   Petrig, Benno L ^c   Truffer, Frederic ^c   Bloch, Konrad E ^a,d   Holmes, Timothy A ^a   Cattin, Philippe ^e   Hefti, Urs ^f   Sellner, Miriam ^a   Sutter, Florian K P ^a   Maggiorini, Marco ^a   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 UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f Liestal Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; TRAVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951915547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011532     Document Type: Article

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