Images in cardiovascular medicine. High-altitude-induced right-heart failure

Circulation. 2007 Mar 6;115(9):e308-9. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.650994.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Altitude Sickness / complications*
  • Bolivia
  • Dyspnea / etiology
  • Echocardiography, Doppler
  • Fatigue / etiology
  • Headache / etiology
  • Heart Failure / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Failure / etiology
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / etiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pressure
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / etiology
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / etiology