High Altitude

This book addresses the challenges in dealing with the changes in human physiology and the medical conditions that arise from exposure to high altitude. It offers a window into greater understanding and more successful treatment of hypoxic human diseases.

Over the last decade the science and medicine of high altitude and hypoxia adaptation has seen great advances. High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia addresses the challenges in dealing with the changes in human physiology and the particular medical conditions that arise from exposure to high altitude. In-depth and comprehensive chapters cover both the basic science and the clinical consequences of exposure to high altitude. Genetic, cellular, organ and whole body system responses to high altitudes are covered and chapters discuss these effects on a wide range of diseases. Expert authors provide insight into the care of patients with pre-existing medical conditions that fail in some cases to adapt as well as offer insights into how high altitude research can help critically ill patients. High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia is an important new volume that offers a window into greater understanding and more successful treatment of hypoxic human diseases.

Written by an international group of expert authors In-depth and comprehensive chapters cover both the clinical aspects and basic science of Hypoxia Important new volume that offers a window into greater understanding and more successful treatment of hypoxic human diseases

Autorentext
Erik R. Swenson, MD is a professor in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. His research interests include adaptation and maladaptation in animals and humans to high altitude hypoxia: renal and pulmonary responses with emphasis on acute mountain sickness and high altitude pulmonary edema. Peter Bartsch, MD has participated in many field studies in the Alps, investigating the physiology, prevention and treatment of acute high altitude illnesses. From 1984 to 1989, he ran high altitude research projects at the Inselspital Bern, in co-operation with Oswald Oelz, and in 1990, he led the Exercise Physiology Laboratory at the Swiss School of Sports. In 1991, he was appointed Professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Heidelberg where he is currently the head of the Division of Sports Medicine. Peter Bartsch

Inhalt

1. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of O2 Sensing Paul Schumacher 2. Cellular and Molecular Defenses Against Hypoxia Joachim Fandrey 3. Control of Breathing Luc Teppema 4. Lung Function and Gas Exchange Susan Hopkins and Andrew Luks 5. Pulmonary Circulation Marco Maggiorini and Simon Gibbs 6. Cardiovascular System Benjamin Levine 7. Cerebral Circulation and Brain Chris Imray and Philip Ainslie 8. Autonomic Nervous System Roger Hainsworth, Mark Drinkhill, and Victoria Claydon 9. Skeletal Muscle Hans Hoppler 10. Blood and Hemostasis Jim Milledge and Peter Bartsch 11. Renal Function and Fluid Balance Erik Swenson 12. Endocrine Function John-Paul Richalet 13. Gastrointestinal Function Simon Travis and Noor Hamad 14. Immune System Robert Mazzeo 15. Nutrition and Metabolism George Brooks 16. Exercise Carsten Lundby and Bengt Saltin 17. Sleep Konrad Bloch 18. Reproductionand Growth Susan Niermeyer 19. Human Evolution at High Altitude Cynthia Beall 20. Acute Mountain Sickness and High-Altitude Cerebral Edema Peter Bartsch, Damian Bailey, and Ralf Baumgartner 21. High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema Robert Schoene and Erik Swenson 22. Subacute and Chronic Mountain Sickness Fabiola Leon-Velarde 23. High Altitude and Common Medical Conditions Andrew Luks and Peter Hackett