Acetazolamide plus low-dose dexamethasone is better than acetazolamide alone to ameliorate symptoms of acute mountain sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 883-886

  Bernhard, William N ^a   Miller Schalick, Lisa ^a   Delaney, Paul A ^a   Bernhard, Therese M ^a   Barnas, George M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATION;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DEXAMETHASONE; DIURETICS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 3543025081     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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