Altitude pulmonary edema below 8,000 feet: What are we missing?

Chest

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-7

  Raymond, Lawrence W ^a  

^a LEVINE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; NALOXONE; NIFEDIPINE; SALMETEROL;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDITORIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GAS EXCHANGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FLUID; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN THERAPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0037245888     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.123.1.5     Document Type: Editorial

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