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‘Polar anaemia’: cardiac failure during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
On the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), Dr F.A. Cook described a disease that he called ‘polar anaemia’ and on this expedition it affected most of the expedition members and caused one death. The symptoms were shortness of breath, abnormalities of the pulse and oedema (swelling of the legs) and the d...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23564976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0032247411000222 |