High-altitude global amnesia

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-28

  Litch, James A ^a,b   Bishop, Rachel A ^a  

^a Kunde Hospital   (Nepal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Altitude illness; Focal neurological impairment; HAGA; High altitude; High altitude global amnesia; Transient global amnesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0034063591     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2000)011[0025:HAGA]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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