Commercial air travel and in-flight pulmonary hypertension.
BACKGROUND: It has recently been shown that commercial air travel triggers hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and modestly increases pulmonary artery pressure in healthy passengers. There is large interindividual variation in hypoxic pulmonary vasoreactivity, and some passengers may be at risk of d...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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