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Severe acute mountain sickness.

J G Dickinson.   

Abstract

The experiences of acute mountain sickness (AMS) as it has presented to a physician working in a general hospital at 1370 m in Kathmandu, nepal, are described. The features of 39 cases are analysed. It is suggested that AMS should be classified into benign and malignant forms.

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Year:  1979        PMID: 493196      PMCID: PMC2425546          DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.55.645.454

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Postgrad Med J        ISSN: 0032-5473            Impact factor:   2.401


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Authors:  G Morpurgo; P Arese; A Bosia; G P Pescarmona; M Luzzana; G Modiano; S Krishna ranjit
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1976-03       Impact factor: 11.205

2.  Mountain sickness, retinal haemorrhages, and acclimatisation on Mount Everest in 1975.

Authors:  C Clarke; J Duff
Journal:  Br Med J       Date:  1976-08-28

3.  Cerebral form of high-altitude illness.

Authors:  C S Houston; J Dickinson
Journal:  Lancet       Date:  1975-10-18       Impact factor: 79.321

4.  The incidence, importance, and prophylaxis of acute mountain sickness.

Authors:  P H Hackett; D Rennie; H D Levine
Journal:  Lancet       Date:  1976-11-27       Impact factor: 79.321

  4 in total
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Authors:  J H Coote
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2.  Altitude-related deaths in seven trekkers in the Himalayas.

Authors:  J Dickinson; D Heath; J Gosney; D Williams
Journal:  Thorax       Date:  1983-09       Impact factor: 9.139

3.  Curcumin prophylaxis mitigates the incidence of hypobaric hypoxia-induced altered ion channels expression and impaired tight junction proteins integrity in rat brain.

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4.  High altitude cerebral edema with a fatal outcome within 24 h of its onset: Shall acclimatization be made compulsory?

Authors:  Meyong Bhutia; Keshav Goyal; Arati Rai; Shweta Kedia; Niraj Kumar; Ranadhir Mitra
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