High altitude cerebral edema

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 136-146

  Hackett, Peter H ^a   Roach, Robert C ^b  

^a International Society for Mountain Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain swelling; Cerebrospinal fluid pressure; Cytotoxic; Vasogenic

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; FUROSEMIDE; OXYGEN; STEROID;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ATAXIA; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG EDEMA; MENTAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEROID THERAPY; THEORY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BRAIN EDEMA; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITORS; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; FEMALE; GAIT ATAXIA; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RISK FACTORS; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4043060886     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1527029041352054     Document Type: Review

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