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High Alt Med Biol
; 21(4): 315-318, 2020 12.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-791528
ABSTRACT
Berger, Marc Moritz, Peter H. Hackett, and Peter Bärtsch. No relevant analogy between COVID-19 and acute mountain sickness. High Alt Med Biol. 21:315-318, 2020.-Clinicians and scientists have suggested therapies for coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) that are known to be effective for other medical conditions. A recent publication suggests that pathophysiological mechanisms underlying acute mountain sickness (a syndrome of nonspecific neurological symptoms typically experienced by nonacclimatized individuals at altitudes >2500 m) may overlap with the mechanisms causing COVID-19. In this short review, we briefly evaluate this mistaken analogy and demonstrate that this concept is not supported by scientific evidence.
Subject(s)
Altitude Sickness , COVID-19 Drug Treatment , COVID-19 , Erythropoietin , Acute Disease , Altitude Sickness/complications , Altitude Sickness/drug therapy , Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2/metabolism , COVID-19/complications , Erythropoietin/therapeutic use , Humans , Hypoxia/complications , Inflammation/complications , SARS-CoV-2 , Symptom Assessment
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High Alt Med Biol
; 21(2): 192-193, 2020 06.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-46810