Factors associated with optic nerve sheath diameter during exposure to hypobaric hypoxia

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 1914-1918

  Strapazzon, Giacomo ^a   Brugger, Hermann ^a   Cappello, Tomas Dal ^a   Procter, Emily ^a   Hofer, Georg ^b   Lochner, Piergiorgio ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b General Hospital of Silandro   (Italy)

^c General Hospital Merano   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARIC HYPOXIA; HYPOXIA; MALE; NERVE SHEATH; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE SHEATH DIAMETER; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84902149011     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000457     Document Type: Article

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