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  • Title: Pulmonary gas exchange in acute mountain sickness.
    Author: Sutton JR, Bryan AC, Gray GW, Horton ES, Rebuck AS, Woodley W, Rennie ID, Houston CS.
    Journal: Aviat Space Environ Med; 1976 Oct; 47(10):1032-7. PubMed ID: 985274.
    Abstract:
    The severity of acute mountain sickness (AMS) was investigated in healthy volunteers, airlifted to high altitude (5,360 m). Blood gases were measured at 2,990 m and 5,360 m. Symptoms of AMS were found in all subjects, but ranged from malaise to vomiting with intractable headache. The clinical severity of AMS was directly related to the arterial PCO2 and inversely to pH, but unrelated to the PO2 on arrival at high altitude. However, PO2 fell and was lowest 48 h after arrival at high altitude in those subjects with the most severe AMS. These were the only subjects to show an increase in the alveolar-arterial PO2 difference and in the venous admixture ratio during the first 48 h. These abnormalities in gas exchange, which developed in the subjects with the most marked cerebral symptoms, suggest that the manifestations of cerebral and pulmonary dysfunction at altitude develop simultaneously, a finding that suggests coexisting cerebral and pulmonary edema.
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