High Altitude Illness
High Altitude Illness
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DOI：
10.1001/jama.1977.03270390015004
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发表时间：
1977-03
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L. Smith
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L. Smith
致编辑。-针对查尔斯·s·休斯顿博士题为“高原疾病：各种表现形式的疾病”的文章（236:2193,1976），我可以说，在我担任玻利维亚拉巴斯卫理会医院（海拔3 750米）院长的六年中，我对这一现象非常着迷。急性胃肠道肠系膜水肿、脑水肿、肺水肿或三者兼有是常见的。我个人的经历仅限于在到达这个海拔高度后的大约一周内无法睡好觉。几名美国大使馆和美国国际开发署的工作人员，以及一些驻扎在拉巴斯的传教士，每次从较低的海拔返回拉巴斯时，都会反复出现肺水肿。有趣的是，这在青少年时期的孩子中是一个普遍的问题，尽管他们中的一些人出生在美国
To the Editor.— In response to Dr Charles S. Houston's article entitled "High Altitude Illness: Disease with Protean Manifestations" (236:2193, 1976), may I say that I was fascinated by this phenomenon during the six years I served as director of the Methodist Hospital in La Paz, Bolivia (elevation 3,750 m). It was common to see patients with acute gastrointestinal mesenteric edema, cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, or a combination of the three. My own personal experience was limited to an inability to sleep well for about one week after arrival in the altitude. Several of the US Embassy and US AID personnel, as well as some of the missionaries stationed in La Paz, experienced repeated episodes of pulmonary edema each time they returned to La Paz from a lower altitude. Interestingly, it was a common problem among children during their adolescent years, even though several of them had been born in