 Altitude Sickness
"Altitude Sickness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Multiple symptoms associated with reduced oxygen at high ALTITUDE.
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D000532
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C08.618.020
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2000 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2001 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2012 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2013 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2014 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2015 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2016 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2017 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2020 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Altitude Sickness" by people in Profiles.
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Bradbury KE, Gideon EA, Baranauskas MN, Betts AW, Davis KA, DiMarco KG, Hubbard CD, Kelly T, Miller MT, Pendleton MB, Quilter WE, Rhodine JA, Stephens MR, Lore DJ, Duke JW, Roach RC, Subudhi AW. Impact of intravenous iron or exogenous erythropoietin on hemoglobin mass, exercise performance, and acute mountain sickness during altitude acclimatization. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2025 Oct 01; 139(4):954-963.
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Van Ochten N, Rudofker EW, Cornwell WK. Altitude Adversities: Is It Safe for People with Cardiovascular Disease to Travel to Moderate-High Altitude? High Alt Med Biol. 2025 Sep; 26(3):328-334.
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Cornwell W, Baggish AL, Dehnert C, Levine BD, Luks AM. Clinical Conundrum: Climbing at the Extremes of High Elevation with Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy. High Alt Med Biol. 2025 Sep; 26(3):237-241.
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Small E, Goldberg E, Musi M, Strickland B, Paterson R, Phillips C, Keyes LE. Prochlorperazine maleate versus placebo for the prevention of acute mountain sickness: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2024 Nov 21; 25(1):785.
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Fallahi S, Houck JA, Euser AG, Julian CG, Moore LG, Lorca RA. High altitude differentially modulates potassium channel-evoked vasodilatation in pregnant human myometrial arteries. J Physiol. 2022 12; 600(24):5353-5364.
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Azad P, Caldwell AB, Ramachandran S, Spann NJ, Akbari A, Villafuerte FC, Bermudez D, Zhao H, Poulsen O, Zhou D, Bafna V, Subramaniam S, Haddad GG. ARID1B, a molecular suppressor of erythropoiesis, is essential for the prevention of Monge's disease. Exp Mol Med. 2022 06; 54(6):777-787.
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Nuss R. Medical Conditions and High-Altitude Travel. N Engl J Med. 2022 05 12; 386(19):1866.
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Kelly TD, Meier M, Weinman JP, Ivy D, Brinton JT, Liptzin DR. High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema in Colorado Children: A Cross-Sectional Survey and Retrospective Review. High Alt Med Biol. 2022 06; 23(2):119-124.
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Bebic Z, Brooks Peterson M, Polaner DM. Respiratory physiology at high altitude and considerations for pediatric patients. Paediatr Anaesth. 2022 Feb; 32(2):118-125.
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Miglani M, Pasha Q, Gupta A, Priyadarshini A, Pati Pandey R, Vibhuti A. Seeding drug discovery: Telomeric tankyrase as a pharmacological target for the pathophysiology of high-altitude hypoxia. Drug Discov Today. 2021 11; 26(11):2774-2781.
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