title: [Cardiovascular deconditioning syndrome during space flight].
abstract: Weightlessness results, in Man, in a redistribution of organic fluids from the lower half of the body to the thoraco-cephalic areas. This fluid transfer is responsible, in the course of the flight, for a series of subjective and objective disorders which the astronauts will experience. These disorders are related to venous stasis in the thoraco-cephalic area. Moreover, upon return of any space mission, regardless of its length, the astronauts will experience a disadaptation of their cardiovascular system indicated by hypotension with the possible occurrence of a presyncopal state, or even a syncope and a lowered stress capability. The haemodynamic consequences of this fluid transfer, from central and peripheral standpoint, and the mechanisms implicated in the cardiovascular deconditioning syndrome, are presented and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Güell
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Braak
mesh_terms: D001775:Blood Circulation; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D013026:Space Flight; D013577:Syndrome
vernacular_title: Le syndrome de déconditionnement cardiovasculaire au cours des vols spatiaux.