Images in cardiovascular medicine. High-altitude-induced right-heart failure.
Huez
Sandrine
S
Department of Pathophysiology and Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine of the Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Faoro
Vitalie
V
Vachiéry
Jean-Luc
JL
Unger
Philippe
P
Martinot
Jean-Benoit
JB
Naeije
Robert
R
D000208:Acute Disease; D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000150:complications*; D001838:Bolivia; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011312:Pressure; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology