High-altitude illness: Menace in Himalayas of Nepal

Nepal is a country of Himalayas including Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, where a lot of people travel to high altitudes. Significant number of people develop high-altitude illness which includes acute mountain sickness (AMS), high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and high-altitude cer...

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Autores principales: Lamichhane, Saral, Ghimire, Ishwor, Pokhrel, Amrit, Sharma, Nava Raj, Acharya, Surya Kiran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9441300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104494
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author Lamichhane, Saral
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description Nepal is a country of Himalayas including Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, where a lot of people travel to high altitudes. Significant number of people develop high-altitude illness which includes acute mountain sickness (AMS), high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) leading even to death. Addressing this issue demands more efforts on both the preventive and treatment aspects to decrease the sufferings of people in this modern time of advanced healthcare and technology.
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spelling pubmed-94413002022-09-06 High-altitude illness: Menace in Himalayas of Nepal Lamichhane, Saral Ghimire, Ishwor Pokhrel, Amrit Sharma, Nava Raj Acharya, Surya Kiran Ann Med Surg (Lond) Perspective Nepal is a country of Himalayas including Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, where a lot of people travel to high altitudes. Significant number of people develop high-altitude illness which includes acute mountain sickness (AMS), high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) leading even to death. Addressing this issue demands more efforts on both the preventive and treatment aspects to decrease the sufferings of people in this modern time of advanced healthcare and technology. Elsevier 2022-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9441300/ /pubmed/36072561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104494 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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