title: Altitude sickness.
abstract: Altitude sickness is a clinical syndrome that occurs with abrupt ascents to altitudes of 3000 metres and above. Symptoms include headache, malaise, fatigue, dizziness, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, and oliguria. At higher altitudes more severe illness resulting from pulmonary oedema or cerebral oedema can occur.
authors.affiliation: South Australian Travellers' Medical and Vaccination Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McDonnell
mesh_terms: D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000503:physiopathology*