ALLMedicine™ High-altitude Pulmonary Edema Center

Dec 3rd, 2020 - Chest radiography is a diagnostic tool commonly used by medical providers to assess high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). Although HAPE often causes a pattern of pulmonary edema with right lower lung predominance, previous research has shown that ...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Healthy children may present acute mountain sickness (AMS) within a few hours after arrival at high altitudes. In few cases, serious complications may occur, including high-altitude pulmonary edema and rarely high-altitude cerebral edema. Those wi...

Nov 19th, 2020 - Objective: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for the evaluation of patients with suspected high-altitude pulmonary edema can be a useful tool in remote, high-altitude areas. The same technique can also yield high differential diagnostic accuracy fo...

Sep 11th, 2020 - High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a noncardiogenic form of pulmonary edema, which is induced upon exposure to hypobaric hypoxia at high altitude (HA). Hypobaric hypoxia generates reactive oxygen species that may damage telomeres and disturb ...

Aug 3rd, 2020 - Testing the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) at low-altitude helps to detect those who do not hyperventilate appropriately in hypoxia but might not necessarily predict the HVR and the risk to develop acute mountain sickness (AMS) at high altitud...

Dec 3rd, 2020 - Chest radiography is a diagnostic tool commonly used by medical providers to assess high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). Although HAPE often causes a pattern of pulmonary edema with right lower lung predominance, previous research has shown that ...

Nov 24th, 2020 - Healthy children may present acute mountain sickness (AMS) within a few hours after arrival at high altitudes. In few cases, serious complications may occur, including high-altitude pulmonary edema and rarely high-altitude cerebral edema. Those wi...

Nov 19th, 2020 - Objective: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for the evaluation of patients with suspected high-altitude pulmonary edema can be a useful tool in remote, high-altitude areas. The same technique can also yield high differential diagnostic accuracy fo...

Sep 11th, 2020 - High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a noncardiogenic form of pulmonary edema, which is induced upon exposure to hypobaric hypoxia at high altitude (HA). Hypobaric hypoxia generates reactive oxygen species that may damage telomeres and disturb ...

Aug 3rd, 2020 - Testing the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) at low-altitude helps to detect those who do not hyperventilate appropriately in hypoxia but might not necessarily predict the HVR and the risk to develop acute mountain sickness (AMS) at high altitud...

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Apr 20th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. For Luanne Freer, MD, an expert in high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and founder and director of Everest ER, a nonprofit seasonal clinic at the...

Apr 5th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's  Coronavirus Resource Center. Physicians in the COVID-19 trenches are beginning to question whether standard respiratory therapy protocols for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndr...

Apr 5th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's  Coronavirus Resource Center. Physicians in the COVID-19 trenches are beginning to question whether standard respiratory therapy protocols for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndr...