Successful treatment of severe acute mountain sickness and excessive pulmonary hypertension with dexamethasone in a prepubertal girl

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 256-261

  Kriemler, Susi ^a,b   Kohler, Malcolm ^c   Zehnder, Monica ^b   Bloch, Konrad E ^c   Brunner La Rocca, Hanspeter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Children; Echocardiography; HAPE; High altitude; Pulmonary artery pressure

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; OXYGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREPUBERTY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; DEXAMETHASONE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846555676     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2006.7.256     Document Type: Article

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