Remote Ischemic Preconditioning for Prevention of High Altitude Diseases : Fact or Fiction ? 1 Marc

Remote Ischemic Preconditioning for Prevention of High Altitude Diseases: Fact or Fiction? 1 Marc Moritz Berger, Franziska Macholz, Heimo Mairbäurl, Peter Bärtsch 2 3 1) Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and General Critical Care Medicine, Salzburg General 4 Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria. 5 2) Department of Anesthesiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany 6 3) Department of Internal Medicine VII, Division of Sports Medicine, University of Heidelberg, 7 Germany 8 4) Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H; part of the German Center for Lung 9 Research, DZL) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Corresponding author 20 Marc Moritz Berger, MD, DESA 21 Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and General Critical Care Medicine 22 Salzburg General Hospital 23 Paracelsus Medical University 24 Müllner Hauptstrasse 48 25 A-5020 Salzburg 26 Phone: +43 662 4482 57794, Fax: +43 662 4482 2703 27 e-mail: [email protected] 28 29 30 31 32 Articles in PresS. J Appl Physiol (June 18, 2015). doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00156.2015