Exaggerated hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction without susceptibility to high altitude pulmonary edema

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 11-17

  Dehnert, Christoph ^a,b   Mereles, Derliz ^a   Greiner, Sebastian ^a   Albers, Dagmar ^a   Scheurlen, Fabian ^a   Zügel, Stefanie ^c   Böhm, Thomas ^d   Vock, Peter ^e   Maggiorini, Marco ^f   Grünig, Ekkehard ^g   Bärtsch, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Medbase Sports Medical Center Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d Kantonsspital Chur   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g Thoraxklinik Heidelberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

high altitude pulmonary edema; hypoxia; pulmonary vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HIGH ALTITUDE PULMONARY EDEMA; HUMAN; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; OXYGEN TENSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; COMPLICATION; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; TIME FACTOR; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84925818375     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2014.1117     Document Type: Article

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