Current concept of chronic mountain sickness: pulmonary hypertension–related high-altitude heart disease
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High Altitude Mountain Sickness
Its probable first account has been given by Plutarch in his comments on Alexander’s invasion of India: “Many then were the dangers— but the greatest harm came from severity of weathers”. Similarly, a Chinese record mentions of “Lesser Headache Mountains” and the “Greater Headache Mountains” where men’s bodies become feverish, they lose color and are attacked with headache, dizziness and vomiti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1080-6032
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2001)012[0190:ccocms]2.0.co;2