[High altitude acute pulmonary edema (author's transl)].
HAAPE has been recognised only recently but is of real interest as much from the clinical as well as the dogmatic stand-point owing to the complexity of its physiopathological findings. It is encountered at altitudes higher than 4,000 meters either during a first contact or in natives returning from low altitude zones. There is an individual or even racial susceptibility.
D000531:Altitude; D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications*; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology*
L'oedème aigu du poumon de haute altitude. Résumé