A Tibetan with chronic mountain sickness followed by high altitude pulmonary edema on reentry

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 190-194

  Wu, Tianyi ^a  

^a High Altitude Med Res Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Atrial natriuretic peptide; Hypobaric hypoxia; Hypoventilation; Polycythemia; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DIURETIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD VOLUME; CASE REPORT; CHINA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COUGHING; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; INSOMNIA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SEA LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TINNITUS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PULMONARY EDEMA; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TIBET; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4043115021     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1527029041352081     Document Type: Article

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