High altitude illness.
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Altitude illness: risk factors, prevention, presentation, and treatment.
Altitude illness affects 25 to 85 percent of travelers to high altitudes, depending on their rate of ascent, home altitude, individual susceptibility, and other risk factors. Acute mountain sickness is the most common presentation of altitude illness and typically causes headache and malaise within six to 12 hours of gaining altitude. It may progress to high-altitude cerebral edema in some pers...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The New England journal of medicine
دوره 345 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001