Deadly High Altitude Pulmonary Disorders: Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS); High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) and High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE): A Clinical Review

Deadly High Altitude Pulmonary Disorders: Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS); High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) and High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE): A Clinical Review


Authored by Michael Obrowski

Mountain Sickness, also called High Altitude Sickness, is specifically a triad of different disorders, in order of increasing seriousness: Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS); High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) and High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE). These three disorders, with relatively unimportant small variations seen in some Pulmonology Textbooks, because these are so serious, they are all potentially deadly pulmonary disorders and we will discuss these three major, deadly disorders. Each one, starting with AMS, can progress rapidly to HAPE and then HACE. 

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