CHRONIC MOUNTAIN-SICKNESS
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 139, 87-89
Abstract
Chronic mountain sickness [Monge''s disease] was 1st described in the Peruvian Andes. It consists of an excessive polycythemia for the altitude of residence. Its main symptoms are of cerebral congestion and occasionally of right heart insufficiency. It may be caused by a decay of the ventilatory rate with age with the corresponding increase in hematocrit.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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