TY - JOUR
T1 - Southwestern Internal Medicine Conference
T2 - Pulmonary complications of high-altitude exposure
AU - Hsia, C. C W
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - The primary physiologic disturbance at high altitude is hypoxemia, which leads to a cascade of secondary changes in each step of the oxygen-transport chain. The author, in this review, focuses on the alterations in ventilatory control and alveolar-capillary gas exchange at high altitude and discusses the clinical pulmonary complications associated with these alterations, as well as their prevention and management.
AB - The primary physiologic disturbance at high altitude is hypoxemia, which leads to a cascade of secondary changes in each step of the oxygen-transport chain. The author, in this review, focuses on the alterations in ventilatory control and alveolar-capillary gas exchange at high altitude and discusses the clinical pulmonary complications associated with these alterations, as well as their prevention and management.
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U2 - 10.1097/00000441-199406000-00013
DO - 10.1097/00000441-199406000-00013
M3 - Article
C2 - 8198153
AN - SCOPUS:0028232377
SN - 0002-9629
VL - 307
SP - 448
EP - 464
JO - American Journal of the Medical Sciences
JF - American Journal of the Medical Sciences
IS - 6
ER -