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    High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a life-threatening form of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema that occurs in otherwise healthy people at altitudes...
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    Pulmonary edema (British English: oedema), also known as pulmonary congestion, is excessive fluid accumulation in the tissue or air spaces (usually alveoli)...
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    sickness can progress to high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) with associated shortness of breath or high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) with associated...
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  • ultimately leads to high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). For this reason, some climbers carry supplemental oxygen to prevent hypoxia, edema, and HAPE. The...
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  • High-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) is a medical condition in which the brain swells with fluid because of the physiological effects of traveling to a...
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    in Raynaud's was not clear. Sildenafil has been studied for high-altitude pulmonary edema, but its use is currently not recommended for that indication...
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    high altitude, where it causes altitude sickness leading to potentially fatal complications: high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and high altitude cerebral...
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    exercise and sleep, and if high altitude pulmonary edema occurs. In this range severe altitude illness is common. At extreme altitude, above 5,500 metres (18...
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  • simulating flight. High-altitude pulmonary edema High-altitude cerebral edema Auerbach Paul, Miller YE (February 1981). "High Altitude Flatus Expulsion...
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    and water metabolism. People who are predisposed to develop high-altitude pulmonary edema may present a reduction in urine production before respiratory...
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