High-Altitude Medicine and Pathology

Abstract

The importance of high-altitude studies physical and climatic factors at high altitude the native highlander ventilation and pulmonary diffusion transport and release of oxygen to the tissues tissue diffusion the carotid bodies haemoglobins disorders of blood coagulation pulmonary hypertension the pulmonary trunk benign acute mountain sickness high-altitude pulmonary oedema cerebral mountain sickness Monge's disease and subacute infantile mountain sickness systemic circulation heart and coronary circulation renal function and electrolytes body weight and alimentary system endocrines fertility and pregnancy cold skin and nails infection and allergy eye and special senses sleep cerebral function astronomers at high altitude athletic performance at moderate altitude exposure to extreme altitudes descent to sea level adaptation to hypobaric hypoxia, life at high altitude.