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The heart at high altitude.
On August 8, 1786 Michel Gabriel Paccard, the village doctor in Chamonix, with his guide Jacques Balmat, made the first ascent of Mont Blanc, and reached a height at which scientific opinion of the day considered life to be insupportable. Since that date the ways in which the body adapts to high altitude have interested in turn the physiologist, the mountaineer, the aviator, and now the cardiol...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1968
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.30.3.291