D-dimer is not elevated in asymptomatic high altitude climbers after descent to 5340m: The mount everest deep venous thrombosis study (Ev-DVT)

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 223-227

  Zafren, Ken ^a,b   Feldman, Joanne ^a   Becker, Robert J ^a   Williams, Sarah R ^a   Weiss, Eric A ^a,b   Deloughery, Tom ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Himalayan Rescue Association   (Nepal)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coagulation; D dimer; deep venous thrombosis; high altitude; hypoxia; venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053492499     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2010.1101     Document Type: Article

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