High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia

ISBN-13: 9781493946808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 496 str.

Erik R. Swenson; Peter Bartsch

Opis

​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.

Spis treści

High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia:

 

 

1.      Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of O₂ Sensing

Paul T. Schumacker

 

2.      Cell and Molecular Defenses Against Hypoxia

Stilla Frede and Joachim Fandrey

 

3.      Control of Breathing

 Luc J. Teppema and Remco R. Berendson

 

4.      Lung Function and Gas Exchange

Andrew M. Luks and Susan R. Hopkins

 

5.      Pulmonary Circulation

Marco Maggiorini, Peter Bartsch, and Erik R Swenson

 

6.      Cardiovascular System

Aaron L. Baggish, Eugene E. Wolfel, and Benjamin D. Levine

 

7.      Cerebral Circulation and Brain

Philip N. Ainslie, Mark H. Wilson, and Christopher HE Imray

 

8.      Autonomic Nervous System

Roger Hainsworth, Mark J. Drinkhill, and Victoria E. Claydon

 

9.      Skeletal Muscle

Hans Hoppeler, Matthias Mueller, and Michael Vogt

 

10.  Blood and Hemostasis

Peter Bärtsch and Jim Milledge

 

11.  Renal Function and Fluid Balance

Erik R. Swenson and Niels V. Olsen

 

12.  Endocrine Function

Jean-Paul Richalet

 

13.  Gastrointestinal Function 

Noor Hamad and Simon Travis

 

14.  Immune System

Robert S. Mazzeo and Erik R. Swenson

 

15.  Nutrition and Metabolism

George A. Brooks

 

16.  Exercise

Carsten Lundby

 

17.  Sleep

Yvonne Nussbaumer-Ochsner and Konrad E. Bloch

 

18.  Reproduction and Growth

Susan Niermeyer

 

19.  Human Evolution at High Altitude

Cynthia M. Beall

 

20.  Acute Mountain Sickness and High-Altitude Cerebral Edema

Peter Bärtsch and Damian Miles Bailey

 

21.  High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema

Robert B. Schoene and Erik R. Swenson

 

22.  Subacute and Chronic Mountain Sickness

Fabiola León-Velarde S, María Rivera-Ch, and Francisco C. Villafuerte

 

23.  High Altitude and Common Medical Conditions

Andrew M. Luks and Peter H. Hackett

O autorze

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