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Cardiac Output and Regional Blood Flows in Altitude Residents

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High Altitude Physiology and Medicine

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It is now well documented that residence in altitude induces circulatory changes. The aim of this presentation is not to give an exhaustive picture of the altitude resident’s circulatory status, but only to describe some of its aspects: (1) the regional distribution of cardiac output; (2) the functional consequences of the circulatory changes, taking the thermoregulatory disturbances induced by the reduction of cutaneous blood flow as an example; and (3) the altitude threshold of the hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.

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    Walter Brendel M.D.

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Durand, J., Varene, P., Jacquemin, C. (1982). Cardiac Output and Regional Blood Flows in Altitude Residents. In: Brendel, W., Zink, R.A. (eds) High Altitude Physiology and Medicine. Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5639-7_18

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