Commercial air travel and in-flight pulmonary hypertension

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-67

  Smith, Thomas G ^a   Chang, Rae W ^a   Robbins, Peter A ^a   Dorrington, Keith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aircraft cabin hypoxia; Chuvash polycythemia; Hypoxia altitude simulation test; Hypoxic challenge test; Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYCYTHEMIA; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRAVEL;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; OXYGEN; POLYCYTHEMIA; TRAVEL;

EID: 84871531238     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3451.2013     Document Type: Article

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