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Increased choroidal thickness in patient with high-altitude retinopathy
We report a case of high-altitude retinopathy with increased choroidal thickness detected by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). A 36-year-old Japanese man developed an acute vision decrease in his left eye after he had trekked at an altitude of 4600 m in Tibet for 1 week. His visual acuity was 20/20 OD and 20/200 OS with refractive errors of - 0.25 diopters (D) OD and - 0.50...
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The highest place on our planet, Mount Everest (8850 m), appears to be close to the limit of how high an acclimatized human can go, albeit slowly. In this paper, I will explore the possibility that what limits human performance at such extreme degrees of hypoxia is the availability of oxygen to the brain. Also, one of the known costs of such extreme exposure is residual mild impairment of perfo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Swiss Medical Forum ‒ Schweizerisches Medizin-Forum
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1424-4020,1424-3784
DOI: 10.4414/smf.2006.06017