From Ocean Deep to Mountain High: Similar Computed Tomography Findings in Immersion and High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018 Oct 15;198(8):1088-1089. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201803-0581IM.

Authors

Peter Lindholm^{1

2}, Erik R Swenson³, Santiago Martínez-Jiménez⁴, H Henry Guo¹

Affiliations

¹ 1 Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
² 2 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ 3 Medical Service, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and.
⁴ 4 Department of Radiology, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri.

PMID: 30044644
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201803-0581IM

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Adult
Altitude
Altitude Sickness / diagnostic imaging
Altitude Sickness / etiology
Child
Decompression Sickness / diagnostic imaging
Diving / adverse effects
Female
Hemoptysis / etiology
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
Lung / diagnostic imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Pulmonary Edema / diagnostic imaging*
Pulmonary Edema / etiology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Young Adult

Supplementary concepts

Pulmonary edema of mountaineers