cardiac and respiratory aspects : a Ciba Foundation Symposium in honour of Professor Alberto Hurtado /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Ruth Porter and Julie Knight.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Edinburgh :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Churchill Livingstone,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1971.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 196 p., [11] p. of plates :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Proceedings of the Symposium on High Altitude Physiology, held 17-18 February 1971.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The influence of high altitude on physiology / Alberto Hurtado -- Morphometric evaluation of changes in lung structure due to high altitude / P.H. Burri and E.R. Weibel -- Chronic mountain sickness: pathology and definition / J. Arias-Stella -- Cor pulmonale in chronic mountain sickness : present concept of Monge's disease / D. Peñaloza, F. Sime and L. Ruiz -- Transarterial leakage : a possible mechanism of high altitude pulmonary oedema / J.W. Severinghaus -- The carotid body in animals at high altitude / C.W. Edwards -- Suprapontine influences on hypoxic ventilatory control / S.M. Tenney, P. Scotto, L.C. Ou, D. Bartlett, and J.E. Remmers -- Genetic aspects of the blunted chemoreflex ventilatory response to hypoxia in high altitude adaptation / S. Lahiri -- Some observations on the biochemistry of the myocardium at high altitude / P. Harris -- Coronary blood flow and myocardial metabolism in man at high altitude / P.R. Moret -- Chapter 12 -- Anatomy of the coronary circulation at high altitude / J. Arias-Stelalnad and M. Topilsky -- Resistance and capacitance vessels of the skin in permanent and temporary residents at high altitude / J. Durand and J.P. Martineaud.