Normobaric hypoxia and symptoms of acute mountain sickness: Elevated brain volume and intracranial hypertension

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 890-898

  Lawley, Justin S ^a,b   Alperin, Noam ^c   Bagci, Ahmet M ^c   Lee, Sang H ^c   Mullins, Paul G ^a   Oliver, Samuel J ^a   Macdonald, Jamie H ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMOBARIC HYPOXIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIMARY HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVERSE SINUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903702298     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.24171     Document Type: Article

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