Pregnancy at high altitude in the Andes leads to increased total vessel density in healthy newborns

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 709-715

  Gassmann, Norina N ^a,b   Van Elteren, Hugo A ^b   Goos, Tom G ^b,c   Morales, Claudia R ^d   Rivera Ch, Maria ^d,e   Martin, Daniel S ^f   Peralta, Patricia Cabala ^g   Del Carpio, Agustin Passano ^g   MacHaca, Saul Aranibar ^g   Huicho, Luis ^e   Reiss, Irwin K M ^b   Gassmann, Max ^a,e   De Jonge, Rogier C J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Hospital III   (Peru)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Incident dark field imaging; Microcirculation; Near infrared spectroscopy; Neonates; Oxygen profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007438967     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00561.2016     Document Type: Article

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