Hypoxia Decreases Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Mountaineers ...

Am J Respir Crit Care Med Vol 163. pp 368–373, 2001 Internet address: Hypoxia Decreases Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Mountaineers Susceptible to High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema THILO BUSCH, PETER BÄRTSCH, DIRK PAPPERT, EKKEHARD GRÜNIG, WULF HILDEBRANDT, HUBERT ELSER, KONRAD J. FALKE, and ERIK R. SWENSON Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany; and Departments of Sports Medicine, Cardiology, and Nuclear Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany An exaggerated hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction is essential for development of high-altitude pulmonary edema

• lower respiratory tract
• pulmonary edema
• nasal
• hypoxia
• correlation coefficient
• altitude
• nitric oxide
• gas