Respiratory alkalinization and posterior cerebral artery dilatation predict acute mountain sickness severity during 10 h normobaric hypoxia.
acute mountain sickness
cerebral blood flow
kidney function
respiratory alkalosis
Journal
Experimental physiology
ISSN: 1469-445X
Titre abrégé: Exp Physiol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9002940
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2021
01 2021
Historique:
received:
14
07
2020
accepted:
07
12
2020
pubmed:
22
12
2020
medline:
22
2
2022
entrez:
21
12
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
What is the central question of this study? The pathophysiology of acute mountain sickness (AMS), involving the respiratory, renal and cerebrovascular systems, remains poorly understood. How do the early adaptations in these systems during a simulated altitude of 5000 m relate to AMS risk? What is the main finding and its importance? The rate of blood alkalosis and cerebral artery dilatation predict AMS severity during the first 10 h of exposure to a simulated altitude of 5000 m. Slow metabolic compensation by the kidneys of respiratory alkalosis attributable to a brisk breathing response together with excessive brain blood vessel dilatation might be involved in early development of AMS. The complex pathophysiology of acute mountain sickness (AMS) remains poorly understood and is likely to involve maladaptive responses of the respiratory, renal and cerebrovascular systems to hypoxia. Using stepwise linear regression, we tested the hypothesis that exacerbated respiratory alkalosis, as a result of a brisk ventilatory response, sluggish renal compensation in acute hypoxia and dysregulation of cerebral perfusion predict AMS severity. We assessed the Lake Louise score (LLS, an index of AMS severity), fluid balance, ventilation, venous pH, bicarbonate, sodium and creatinine concentrations, body weight, urinary pH and cerebral blood flow [internal carotid artery (ICA) and vertebral artery (VA) blood flow and diameter], in 27 healthy individuals (13 women) throughout 10 h exposures to normobaric normoxia (fraction of inspired O
Substances chimiques
Oxygen
S88TT14065
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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IM
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175-190Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Experimental Physiology © 2020 The Physiological Society.
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