High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema
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- 18 July 1996
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 335 (3) , 206-207
- https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199607183350313
Abstract
We wish to highlight morphologic and hemodynamic characteristics of the pulmonary microcirculation that strongly support the concept of stress-induced failure of pulmonary capillaries in high-altitude pulmonary edema rather than pulmonary arterioles, as suggested by Jerome and Severinghaus (March 7 issue).1Keywords
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