On-orbit prospective echocardiography on international space station crew

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 491-501

  Hamilton, Douglas R ^a   Sargsyan, Ashot E ^a   Martin, David S ^a   Garcia, Kathleen M ^a   Melton, Shannon L ^a   Feiveson, Alan ^b   Dulchavsky, Scott A ^c  

^a WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; adult; astronaut; blood volume: physiology; cardiac function; cardiac mass; cardiac output: physiology; echocardiography; female; heart: physiology; humans; male; microgravity; physiological: physiology; stroke volume: physiology; weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CREW MEMBER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION; PARAMETER; PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTELY GUIDED TELE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SPACE AND SPACE RELATED PHENOMENA; SPACE FLIGHT;

ASTRONAUTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPACECRAFT; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 79956121485     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01385.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Mulvagh SL, Charles JB, Riddle JM, et al,: Echocardiographic evaluation of the cardiovascular effects of short-duration spaceflight. J Clin Pharmacol 1991; 31: 1024-1026.
2. Fincke EM, Padalka G, Lee D, et al,: Evaluation of shoulder integrity in space: First report of musculoskeletal US on the international space station. Radiology 2005; 234: 319-322. (Pubitemid 40139894)
3. Foale CM, Kaleri AY, Sargsyan AE, et al,: Diagnostic instrumentation aboard ISS: Just-in-time training for non-physician crew members. Aviat Space Environ Med 2005; 76: 594-598. (Pubitemid 40770733)
4. Jones JA, Sargsyan AE, Barr YR, et al,: Diagnostic ultrasound at MACH 20: Retroperitoneal and pelvic imaging in space. Ultrasound Med Biol 2009; 35: 1059-1067.
5. Sargsyan AE, Dulchavsky SA, Jones JA, et al,: Abdominal imaging with ultrasound on the international space station. Aviat Space Environ Med 2006; 77th Annual Scientific Meetings, ASMA, Orlando FL.
6. Sargsyan AE, Hamilton DR, Jones JA, et al,: FAST at MACH 20: Clinical ultrasound aboard the international space station. J Trauma 2005; 58: 35-39. (Pubitemid 40221730)
7. Dulchavsky SA, Hamilton DR, Diebel LN, et al,: Thoracic ultrasound diagnosis of pneumothorax. J Trauma 1999; 47: 970-971.
8. Dulchavsky SA, Henry SE, Moed BR, et al,: Advanced ultrasonic diagnosis of extremity trauma: The FASTER examination. J Trauma 2002; 53: 28-32. (Pubitemid 34863943)
9. Dyer D, Cusden J, Turner C, et al,: The clinical and technical evaluation of a remote telementored telesonography system during the acute resuscitation and transfer of the injured patient. J Trauma 2008; 65: 1209-1216.
10. Chiao L, Sharipov S, Sargsyan AE, et al,: Ocular examination for trauma; clinical ultrasound aboard the international space station. J Trauma 2005; 58: 885-889. (Pubitemid 40776886)
11. The American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography. Available at: [Accessed February 2, 2011.
12. National Board of Echocardiography. Available at [Accessed February 2, 2011.
13. Hochberg Y, Benjamini Y,: More powerful procedures for multiple significance testing. Stat Med 1990; 9: 811-818. (Pubitemid 20343989)
14. Benjamini Y, Krieger A, Yekutieli D,: Adaptive linear step-up procedures that control the false discovery rate. Biometrika 2006; 93: 491-507. (Pubitemid 44599846)
15. Benjamini Y, Yekutieli D,: The control of the false discovery rate in multiple testing under dependency. Ann Stat 2001; 29: 1165-1188. (Pubitemid 33575263)
16. Charles JB, Lathers CM,: Cardiovascular adaptation to spaceflight. J Clin Pharmacol 1991; 31: 1010-23.
17. Bungo MW, Johnson PC,: Cardiovascular examinations and observations of deconditioning during the space shuttle orbital flight test program. Aviat Space Environ Med 1983; 54: 1001-1004. (Pubitemid 14200107)
18. Bungo MW, Goldwater DJ, Popp RL, et al,: Echocardiographic evaluation of space shuttle crew members. J Appl Physiol 1987; 62: 278-283. (Pubitemid 17060627)
19. Atkov OYu, Bednenko VS, Fomina GA, Ultrasound techniques in space medicine. Aviat Space Environ Med 1987; 58 (9 Pt 2): 69-73.
20. Gazenko OG, Schulzhenko EB, Grigoriev AI, et al,: Review of basic medical results of the Salyut-7-Soyuz-T 8-month manned flight. Acta Astronaut 1988; 17: 155-160. (Pubitemid 18597954)
21. Summers RL, Martin DS, Meck JV, et al,: Mechanism of spaceflight-induced changes in left ventricular mass. Am J Cardiol 2005; 95: 1128-1130. (Pubitemid 40544328)
22. Hunold P, Vogt FM, Heemann UW, et al,: Myocardial mass and volume measurement of hypertrophic left ventricles by MRI-study in dialysis patients examined before and after dialysis. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2003; 5: 553-561. (Pubitemid 37420770)
23. Levine BD, Pawelczyk JA, Ertl AC, et al,: Human muscle sympathetic neural and haemodynamic responses to tilt following spaceflight. J Physiol 2002; 538 (Pt 1): 331-340. (Pubitemid 35190061)