Exposure to high altitude: A risk factor for venous thromboembolism?

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-163

  Gupta, Neha ^a   Ashraf, Mohammad Z ^a  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

air travel; high altitude; hypercoagulation; pulmonary embolism; thrombosis; venous thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; HEPARIN; THROMBIN ANTITHROMBIN COMPLEX; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE; WARFARIN;

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C RESISTANCE; AIR EMBOLISM; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPOSURE; FIBRINOLYSIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK FACTOR; SAGITTAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPORT INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; THROMBOPHILIA; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84858141215     PISSN: 00946176     EISSN: 10989064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1301413     Document Type: Article

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