Resting pulmonary haemodynamics and shunting: A comparison of sea-level inhabitants to high altitude Sherpas

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 592, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1397-1409

  Foster, Glen E ^a   Ainslie, Philip N ^a   Stembridge, Mike ^b   Day, Trevor A ^c   Bakker, Akke ^d   Lucas, Samuel J E ^e,f   Lewis, Nia C S ^a   Macleod, David B ^g   Lovering, Andrew T ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE ISOCAPNIC HYPOXIA; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART RATE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXIA; INTRAPULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG RESISTANCE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; PULMONARY ARTERY SYSTOLIC PRESSURE; PULMONARY SHUNT; RESTING PULMONARY HEMODYNAMIC; SEA LEVEL; SHERPA; ANOXIA; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG CIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; PULMONARY VEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896055647     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.266593     Document Type: Article

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