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- By the time he arrived at the tents late that afternoon Ngawang was delirious, stumbling like a drunk, and coughing up pink, bloodlaced froth: symptoms indicating an advanced case of High Altitude Pulmonary Edema, or HAPE-a mysterious, potentially lethal illness typically brought on by climbing too high, too fast in which the lungs fill with fluid.†
Chpt 8pulmonary = relating to or affecting the lungs
- The root of the problem is believed to be a paucity of oxygen, compounded by high pressure in the pulmonary arteries, causing the arteries to leak fluid into the lungs.†
Chpt 8
- He has one of the worst cases of pulmonary edema I've ever seen.†
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- As he continued to grow sicker and sicker even at low altitude, the doctors postulated that his illness was perhaps not simple HAPE but rather HAPE complicated by tuberculosis or some other preexisting Pulmonary condition.†
Chpt 9
- High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE) is less common than High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE), but it tends to be even more Deadly.†
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- The following morning Wlasich complained that he felt ill and then lost consciousness; a Norwegian doctor who happened to be present determined that the Austrian was suffering from both pulmonary and cerebral edema.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(pulmonary) relating to or affecting the lungs
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)