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Higher pulmonary artery pressure in children than in adults upon fast ascent to high altitude.
The European respiratory journal - 1 Sept 2008
Kriemler S, Jansen C, Linka A, Kessel-Schaefer A, Zehnder M, Schürmann T, Kohler M, Bloch K, Brunner-La Rocca H P
Abstract excerpt
The response of pulmonary artery pressure to high altitude has not been studied in children. It is also not known whether the individual response is hereditary. Therefore, the response of pulmonary artery pressure to high altitude was measured in pre-pubertal children in comparison to that in their biological fathers. Echocardiography was performed at 450 m and over 3 days at 3,450 m. Systolic pulmonary artery...
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