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985274

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1976-12-23
pubmed:abstractText
The severity of acute mountain sickness (AMS) was investigated in healthy volunteers, airlifted to high altitude (5,360 m). Blood gases were measured at 2,990 m and 5,360 m. Symptoms of AMS were found in all subjects, but ranged from malaise to vomiting with intractable headache. The clinical severity of AMS was directly related to the arterial PCO2 and inversely to pH, but unrelated to the PO2 on arrival at high altitude. However, PO2 fell and was lowest 48 h after arrival at high altitude in those subjects with the most severe AMS. These were the only subjects to show an increase in the alveolar-arterial PO2 difference and in the venous admixture ratio during the first 48 h. These abnormalities in gas exchange, which developed in the subjects with the most marked cerebral symptoms, suggest that the manifestations of cerebral and pulmonary dysfunction at altitude develop simultaneously, a finding that suggests coexisting cerebral and pulmonary edema.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0095-6562
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1032-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-10-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1976
pubmed:articleTitle
Pulmonary gas exchange in acute mountain sickness.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.