Reevaluation of excessive erythrocytosis in diagnosing chronic mountain sickness in men from the world’s highest city
| Autor: | Francisco C. Villafuerte, Anne-Kristine Meinild Lundby, Ivan Hancco, Aurélien Pichon, Emeric Stauffer, Laura Oberholzer, Carsten Lundby, Paul Robach, Mathilde Ulliel-Roche, Samuel Verges |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Immunology Polycythemia Altitude Sickness 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Biochemistry Diagnosis Differential 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Altitude health services administration medicine Humans health care economics and organizations Sleep disorder business.industry Cell Biology Hematology medicine.disease Chronic mountain sickness Chronic Disease medicine.symptom business Tinnitus 030215 immunology |
| Zdroj: | Oberholzer, L, Lundby, C, Stauffer, E, Ulliel-Roche, M, Hancco, I, Pichon, A, Lundby, A K M, Villafuerte, F C, Verges, S & Robach, P 2020, ' Reevaluation of excessive erythrocytosis in diagnosing chronic mountain sickness in men from the world’s highest city ', Blood, vol. 136, no. 16, pp. 1884-1888 . https://doi.org/10.1182/BLOOD.2019004508 |
| ISSN: | 1528-0020 0006-4971 |
| Popis: | The diagnosis of chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is based on a score including 7 clinical features (breathlessness, sleep disturbance, cyanosis, venous dilatation, paresthesia, headache, and tinnitus) in the setting of extreme erythrocytosis. Examining individuals in La Rinconada, Peru, the highest city in the world, the authors demonstrated that CMS at extreme altitude is not linked to elevation of hemoglobin, since CMS+ and CMS− individuals had similar levels of erythrocytosis. |
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