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III Symposium on the Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Diseases at High Altitude

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Dear Colleagues and friends:

Several colleagues were asking us about the next symposium.  It is here.

Mark you calendar for October 16-23, 2010!

The III Symposium on the Effect of Chronic Hypoxia
on Diseases at High Altitude is coming up.
And yes, it will also be itinerant, so that conferences are carried out at different altitude sites:

click here to read about it.

Bolivia is waiting for you!

La Paz1

The city of La Paz at 3600 m.

Our previous two symposium were very succesful and everyone was able to appreciate not only the good science of the presentations, but also the visits to unique high altitude places.

II Symposium on the Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Diseases at High Altitude (follow up)

We are at 39 years of scientific production in high altitude research, and we celebrate our friendship with you.

Due to unfortunate circumstances our Echocardiograph broke down and we are in need of a portable echocardiograph for high altitude research at 5300 m. Is there anyone that would know who would be so kind to donate such equipment and consequently collaborate to the sustainability of the high altitude medicine research and knowledge ? If any of you would like to participate in research with us, you are most welcome.

All the best from Bolivia.

Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja and     Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo (Sr)….. still active

High Altitude Pathology Institute
Web: AltitudeClinic.com
Email: zubieta@altitudeclinic.com
Phone: (591-2) 224-5394

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Send your titles Chronic Hypoxia Symposium

Dear distinguished colleagues:

We are now elaborating the preliminary program for the II Symposium on the effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Diseases at High Altitude. Some of you are in our lists of scientists that have expressed their interest in participating. If you have not, our apologies.

Please send us the titles of your talks. Remember that the themes are:

Adaptation and acclimatization to high altitude

Adaptation of highlanders to sea level

Soccer and other sports at high altitude

Diving at high altitude

Chronic Mountain Sickness

Adaptation to extreme hypoxia

The carotid body at high altitude

High altitude ophthalmology

Aviation hypoxia

High Altitude Anthropology

Other high altitude diseases

However some of you have expressed their interest in presenting other hypoxia related subjects. You are most welcome!

We will have oral and poster presentations, so please specify which you prefer. If you are ready to send your abstract, please do so at:
http://zuniv.net/symposium2/abstract.html

Your photograph (“head shot”) will be greatly appreciated. But of course, you are free to send any picture you prefer.

This symposium is open and unrestricted. You are free to express your ideas and to discuss them. Our principles of Science, Honor and Truth stand as originally expressed in our philosophy of science. It will be a pleasure to share this environment with you in an outstanding natural setting at high altitude. Each one of you is respected for your points of view. We want to listen to what you have to say.

All the best,

The organizers
http://hypoxia.zuniv.net
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http://www.altitudeclinic.com
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II Symposium on the Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Diseases at High Altitude


Dear Colleagues and friends from around the globe:

We are proud to send this 1st Announcement of the forthcoming:

Lake Titicaca 3800 m. One place of the itinerant symposium.

II Symposium

THE EFFECT OF CHRONIC HYPOXIA
ON DISEASES AT HIGH ALTITUDE
Aug 2-9, 2008

La Paz, Bolivia

Lake Titicaca 3800 m. Part of the itinerant symposium

Please visit our website:
http://zuniv.net/symposium2

We look forward to seeing you in 2008 !!!

Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo (Sr) and Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja (Jr)
http://altitudeclinic.com

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Hanns-Christian Gunga visits La Paz


Once more our good friend Hanns-Christian Gunga was in La Paz in Dec, 2006 and we had a wonderful visit at the High Altitude Pathology Clinic and a great dinner at a local ***** restaurant. This time he came with Prof. Karl Kirsch of the Department of Physiology, Charite-Universitatsmedizin and Center of Space Medicine, Berlin, Germany. We made plans for joint research in our Pyramid in Chacaltaya.
This photo is in the waiting room of IPPA.

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Seminar at the Centre for Cardiovascular Research Czech Republic

by Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

On Nov 14th, 2006, I visited the Centre for Cardiovascular Research of the Czech Republic Academy of Sciences at Prague. I was very favorably impressed with the long standing pioneer work on the protective effect of chronic hypoxia with regards to myocardial infarction. After the publications of Hurtado in Peru(1950) affirming a lower incidence of myocardial infarction in people living at altitude, Kopecky and Daum (1958) and Poupa (1966) performed the first experimental studies using a model of high altitude hypoxia in a hypobaric chamber. Prof. Poupa was described by Prof. Bohuslav Ostadal, his succesor, as a true renaissance man that not only was extraordinary with the science but also multiple in his interests which included oil paintings.
Prof. Ostadal, transformed the center into an international renown Center of Excellence. In 2003 he was granted the Norman Alpert Award for his outstanding achievements in the area of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine.

Shown above, the solid II World War German hypobaric chamber that is in current use with rats exposed to 5 500 m of altitude as shown on the next picture. The simuloated altitude is quite similar to the altitude of the Chacaltaya high altitude pyramid laboratory.


Prof. Frantisek Kolar, shown at left, the current director, has boosted the research and in this opportunity kindly invited me to give a seminar entitled “ Cardiovascular and pulmonary physiological changes during exercise in high altitude residents: remarkable adaptation to chronic hypoxia.”
This talk presented the work performed at IPPA in relation to high altitude and particularly to the work of Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo (Sr) and his theory of adaptation to life at the hypoxic levels of the summit of Mt. Everest.
The research being performed at the centre is most interesting and promising for practical solutions to the prevention of myocardial infarction through exposure to chronic hypoxia. The equipment used is high tech and on the leading edge in this type of research.

The work they perform is indeed of worlwide interest as there is a current worldwide scientific wave of interest on the effects of high altitude protective effects particularly in the coronary circulation. Prof. Emilio Marticorena of Peru has also greatly contributed to these modern concepts showing how high altitude helps with the rehabilitation of cardiac patients.



Dr. Ivana Ostadalova in charge of developmental cardiological research at the Centre.


The hypoxic chamber where rats are placed in an enviroment with a 10 % oxygen concentration. This chamber is similar to the chamber we have that is called Hyperoxic/Hypoxic Adaptation Chamber

We use it to treat patients with high altitude disease and also to perform research in humans at different altitudes.
Special thanks to Jan Neckar, a young enthusiastic and distinguished scientist of the Centre for the photographs here presented.


We also visited the echocardiography department where echocardiographic observation of myocardial infarcts in rats’ hearts is shown. This is highly complicated and requires much knowledge in the area. They are about to receive the latest techonolgy in this area and this will further boost their prestige in this important area of human health care.

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6th World High Altitude congress in China 2005

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6th World Congress on Mountain Medicine and Physiology in Xining, China and Lasha, Tibet. 2004

Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo (left) and Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta Calleja (right) in Lhasa, Tibet during the visit to one of the hospitals. Shown here are three tibetan monks.

Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo, a Tibetan Monk and Prof. Dale McMcall on the foreground in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, considered one of the marvels of the world.

On the background Prof. Univ. Dr. Hanns-Christian Gunga.

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Berlin Frei University Fisiology Conference

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Berlin Fiziology conference 2005 at The Department of Physiology of Berlin Frei University.
Center for Space Medicine under the direction of Prof. Dr. Univ. Hanns-Christian Gunga

Prof. Poul-Erik Paulev and Prof. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja gave talks representing the Univ. of Copenhagen and the High Altitude Pathology Institute in La Paz, Bolivia

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