Hypovolemia explains the reduced stroke volume at altitude

Physiological Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Siebenmann, Christoph ^a   Hug, Mike ^a   Keiser, Stefanie ^a   Müller, Andrea ^b   van Lieshout, Johannes ^c,d   Rasmussen, Peter ^a   Lundby, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Blood; Frank Starling; Heart; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOVOLEMIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA VOLUME; REBREATHING; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TILT TABLE TEST; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 85009152012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phy2.94     Document Type: Article

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