Exaggerated pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular dysfunction in high-altitude dwellers with patent foramen ovale

Chest

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1072-1079

  Brenner, Roman ^a   Pratali, Lorenza ^b   Rimoldi, Stefano F ^a   Murillo Jauregui, Carla Ximena ^c   Soria, Rodrigo ^a   Rexhaj, Emrush ^a   Salinas Salmón, Carlos ^c   Villena, Mercedes ^c   Romero, Catherine ^c   Sartori, Claudio ^d   Allemann, Yves ^a   Scherrer, Urs ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c Instituto Boliviano de Biologia de Altura   (Bolivia)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWITZERLAND; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALTITUDE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SWITZERLAND; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84927153420     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-1353     Document Type: Article

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