Hypoxia Into the Next Millennium [Paperback]

Hypoxia is a constant threat throughout life. International experts from many different fields, including clinicians, clinical researchers, and basic scientists, have contributed to this volume, presenting state-of-the-art information regarding normal and abnormal (pathophysiological) responses to hypoxia. The topics covered include visitors to high altitude, the latest developments on high-altitude cerebral and pulmonary edema, the brain in hypoxia, high-altitude headache, and similarities between ischemic and hypoxic injury to the brain. In addition topics are covered such as blood-brain barrier in hypoxia, hypoxia interactions with vascular growth, and how humans adjust to extreme hypoxia.Hypoxia is a constant threat throughout life. International experts from many different fields, including clinicians, clinical researchers, and basic scientists, have contributed to this volume, presenting state-of-the-art information regarding normal and abnormal (pathophysiological) responses to hypoxia. The topics covered include visitors to high altitude, the latest developments on high-altitude cerebral and pulmonary edema, the brain in hypoxia, high-altitude headache, and similarities between ischemic and hypoxic injury to the brain. In addition topics are covered such as blood-brain barrier in hypoxia, hypoxia interactions with vascular growth, and how humans adjust to extreme hypoxia.Introduction: Dedication to Herb Hultgren. Preface. Acknowledgements. Contributors. Table of Contents. Mountain Medicine: 1. Herb Hultgren in Peru: What Causes High Altitude Pulmonary Edema? D. Rennie. 2. High Altitude Cerebral Edema and Acute Mountain Sickness: A Pathophysiology Update; P.H. Hackett. 3. Lung Disease at High Altitude; R.B. Schoene. 4. Commuting to High Altitude; J.B. West. 5. The Pregnant Altitude Visitor; S. Niermeyer. High Altitude Pulmonary Edema: 6. High Altitude Edema: Introduction; P. B?rtsch. 7. Pulmonary Hemodynamics: Implications for HilS'