Abstract
Chronic mountain sickness was first described in the Peruvian Andes. It consists of an excessive polycythemia for the altitude of residence. Its main symptoms are of cerebral congestion and occasionally of right heart insufficiency. The authors postulate that it is caused by a decay of the ventilatory rate with age with the corresponding increase in hematocrit.
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Monge, C. C., & Whittembury, J. (1976). Chronic mountain sickness. Johns Hopkins Medical Journal, 139(Sup.), 87–89. https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.101.6.1744-d
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