• Acute and chronic altitude-induced cognitive dysfunction in children an adolescents 

      Rimoldi, SF; Rexhaj, E; Duplain, H; Urben, S; Billieux, J; Allemann, Y; Romero, C; Ayaviri, A; Salinas, C; Villena, M; Scherrer, U; Sartori, C (J Pediatr., 2015-11-02)
      Abstract. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether exposure to high altitude induces cognitive dysfunction in young healthy European children and adolescents during acute, short-term exposure to an altitude of 3450 m and in an ...
    • Pulmonary hypertension in high-altitude dwellers : novel mechanisms, unsuspected predisposing factors 

      Scherrer, U; Turini, P; Thalmann, S; Hutter, D; Salinas Salmón, C; Stuber, T; Shaw, S; Jayet, PY; Sartori-Cucchial, C; Villena, M; Allemann, Y; Sartori, C (Adv Exp Med Biol., 2006)
      Abstract Studies of high-altitude populations, and in particular of maladapted subgroups, may provide important insight into underlying mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of hypoxemia-related disease states in general. ...