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Hiccups and Slurring of Speech: Atypical Presentation of High-Altitude Cerebral Edema

High-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) is one of the rare and severe form of high-altitude mountain sickness. Usually it presents as headache, altered mental status, ataxia in un-acclimatized person with rapid ascent to high altitude. Here we report a case of a 62-year-old male patient who had history...

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Autores principales: Kaeley, Nidhi, Datta, Soumya Subhra, Sharma, Ankit, G, Jithesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36938238
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34997