SOME CLINICAL ASPECTS OF LIFE AT HIGH ALTITUDES
Authors: A HURTADO
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Article1 August 1960SOME CLINICAL ASPECTS OF LIFE AT HIGH ALTITUDESALBERTO HURTADO, M.D.ALBERTO HURTADO, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-2-247 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptContinuous exposure to a high-altitude environment, where the lowered partial pressure of the oxygen in the inspired air originates a certain degree of hypoxia, demands some adaptative mechanisms. These, in general, and in their main objectives, introduce an economy in the drop of the pO2gradient from alveolar air to tissue level, and make possible the acquisition and utilization of the oxygen in the cell metabolism. In our experience, and from observations carried out mainly in Morococha, Peru, at an altitude of 4,540 meters (14,900 feet), with an average barometric pressure of 444 mm. Hg, these mechanisms attain their highest...Bibliography1. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Lima,*Received for publication April 15, 1960.Presented as the Lilly Lecture at the Forty-first Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, San Francisco, California, April 6, 1960.From the Department of Pathological Physiology, and the Institute of Andean Biology, University of San Marcos Faculty of Medicine, Lima, Peru.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Alberto Hurtado, M.D., Dean and Professor of Pathological Physiology, University of San Marcos Faculty of Medicine, Lima,Peru. 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