Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Last Word on Point:Counterpoint: Pulmonary edema does occur in human athletes performing heavy sea-level exercise

Last Word on Point:Counterpoint: Pulmonary edema does occur in human athletes performing heavy... Last Word on Point:Counterpoint: Pulmonary edema does occur in human athletes performing heavy sea-level exercise Susan R. Hopkins Division of Physiology, Department of Medicine, and Pulmonary Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: S. R. Hopkins, Division of Physiology, Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093 (e-mail: shopkins@ucsd.edu ). to the editor: I would like to thank my colleagues and all who contributed their thoughts to this interesting debate. As Dr. Eldridge (see Ref. 7 ) suggests, to address these questions, a highly sensitive and fully quantitative measure of extravascular lung water is required. Until that time, one must make do with the available data. Some dismissed case reports as outliers or confusing the issue. The question debated is whether pulmonary edema does (or does not) occur in human athletes performing heavy sea-level exercise, not how often it occurs or the health (or not) of the athletes or the type of exercise or physiological implications of the edema (or lack thereof). Although these are all topics for discussion, the case reports prove the point. Although a change http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied Physiology The American Physiological Society

Last Word on Point:Counterpoint: Pulmonary edema does occur in human athletes performing heavy sea-level exercise

Journal of Applied Physiology , Volume 109 (4): 1281 – Oct 1, 2010

Loading next page...
 
/lp/the-american-physiological-society/last-word-on-point-counterpoint-pulmonary-edema-does-occur-in-human-ZPk0L2WtRv

References (7)

Publisher
The American Physiological Society
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 the American Physiological Society
ISSN
8750-7587
eISSN
1522-1601
DOI
10.1152/japplphysiol.00903.2010
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Last Word on Point:Counterpoint: Pulmonary edema does occur in human athletes performing heavy sea-level exercise Susan R. Hopkins Division of Physiology, Department of Medicine, and Pulmonary Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: S. R. Hopkins, Division of Physiology, Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093 (e-mail: shopkins@ucsd.edu ). to the editor: I would like to thank my colleagues and all who contributed their thoughts to this interesting debate. As Dr. Eldridge (see Ref. 7 ) suggests, to address these questions, a highly sensitive and fully quantitative measure of extravascular lung water is required. Until that time, one must make do with the available data. Some dismissed case reports as outliers or confusing the issue. The question debated is whether pulmonary edema does (or does not) occur in human athletes performing heavy sea-level exercise, not how often it occurs or the health (or not) of the athletes or the type of exercise or physiological implications of the edema (or lack thereof). Although these are all topics for discussion, the case reports prove the point. Although a change

Journal

Journal of Applied PhysiologyThe American Physiological Society

Published: Oct 1, 2010

There are no references for this article.