Hypoxia: Into the Next Millennium

By Robert C. Roach and Peter H. Hackett

Book Overview

Hypoxia is a constant threat throughout life. International experts from many different fields, including clinicians, clinical researchers, and basic scientists, have contributed to this volume, presenting state-of-the-art information regarding normal and abnormal (pathophysiological) responses to hypoxia. The topics covered include visitors to high altitude, the latest developments on high-altitude cerebral and pulmonary edema, the brain in hypoxia, high-altitude headache, and similarities between ischemic and hypoxic injury to the brain. In addition topics are covered such as blood-brain barrier in hypoxia, hypoxia interactions with vascular growth, and how humans adjust to extreme hypoxia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461371341
• ISBN13: 9781461371342
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"