Acute medical problems in the Himalayas outside the setting of altitude sickness

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 167-174

  Basnyat, Buddha ^a,e   Cumbo, Tom A ^b   Edelman, Robert ^c,d  

^a PATAN HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^e NEPAL INTERNATIONAL CLINIC   (Nepal)

Author keywords

"Non high altitude sickness"; Acute mountain sickness; Diseases of altitude; High altitude cerebral edema; High altitude pulmonary edema; Himalayas

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL;

EID: 0034279786     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/15270290050144163     Document Type: Article

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