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Nelson Villca1, Adriana Asturizaga2, Alexandra Heath-Freudenthal3
1Pediatric Pulmonology, Hospital Materno Infantil, Calle República Dominicana # 100, La Paz - Bolivia.
Abstract:
Healthy children may present acute mountain sickness (AMS) within a few hours after arrival at high altitudes. In few cases, serious complications may occur, including high-altitude pulmonary edema and rarely high-altitude cerebral edema. Those with preexisting conditions especially involving hypoxia and pulmonary hypertension shall not risk travelling to high altitudes. Newborn from low altitude mothers may have prolonged time to complete postnatal adaptation. The number of children and adolescents traveling on commercial aircrafts is growing, and this poses a need for their treating physicians to be aware of the potential risks of hypoxia while air traveling.
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