chronic mountain sickness
- chronic mountain sickness
- mountain sickness characterized by loss of tolerance to hypoxia in a previously acclimatized person, with secondary polycythemia. It occurs in two types: an emphysematous type in which dyspnea is the dominant symptom and bronchitis, laryngitis, and cyanosis are often present; and an erythremic type in which there is an erythremic color that becomes cyanotic on mild exertion, with fatigue, headache, episodic stupor, paresthesias, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and decreased visual acuity. Called also Andes disease and Monge disease.
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