Chronic Mountain Sickness: Clinical Aspects, Etiology, Management, and Treatment
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Chronic Mountain Sickness: Clinical Aspects, Etiology, Management, and Treatment
Villafuerte, Francisco C., and Noemí Corante. Chronic mountain sickness: clinical aspects, etiology, management, and treatment. High Alt Med Biol. 17:61-69, 2016.-Millions of people worldwide live at a high altitude, and a significant number are at risk of developing Chronic Mountain Sickness (CMS), a progressive incapacitating syndrome caused by lifelong exposure to hypoxia. CMS is characteriz...
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Arias-Stella, J., Kriiger, H., and Recavarren, S. (1973). Thorax, 28, 701-708. Pathology of chronic mountain sickness. Pathological data on chronic mountain sickness are scarce due to the fact that the disease is ameliorated or cured by descent to a low altitude. In this report we describe a case of chronic mountain sickness occurring in a woman of 48 years at Cerro de Pasco (4,300 m above sea ...
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عنوان ژورنال: High Altitude Medicine & Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1527-0297,1557-8682
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2016.0031