Persistent high-altitude headache and aguesia without anosmia.
High-altitude headache and taste dysfunction are usually cured within a few months by descent to sea level. We studied a patient who had persistent bitemporal throbbing headache with the associated findings of high-altitude headache syndrome 15 years after a compression chamber accident. He also had loss of taste without loss of smell since the incident.
Kassirer
M R
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Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine.
Such
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RV
D000328:Adult; D000370:Ageusia / Q000209:etiology*; D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000150:complications*; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D000857:Olfaction Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D013651:Taste Disorders / Q000209:etiology*