[High altitude and preexisting lung diseases].

Autor: Brossard L; Service de médecine interne, Hôpital du Jura, 2800 Delémont., Brossard C, Jayet PY, Scherrer U, Nicod L, Duplain H
Jazyk: francouzština
Zdroj: Revue medicale suisse [Rev Med Suisse] 2009 Nov 18; Vol. 5 (226), pp. 2312-6.
Abstrakt: Today, a growing number of people, some of them suffering from lung diseases, travel to high altitude resorts. It is sometimes not easy for the general practitioner to adequately counsel these patients. Based on our knowledge of physiopathology and clinical studies, the present paper addresses the effects of high altitude in patients with preexisting lung diseases and provides recommendations in order to optimize the sojourn at high altitude.
Databáze: MEDLINE