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To the Editor: In his Perspective article,1 Voelkel proposes that inflammation is a causal factor in high-altitude pulmonary edema. We suggest that recent evidence supports a view that inflammation may not be pathogenetic in highaltitude pulmonary edema. Rather, the condition has a hydrostatic basis...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2002-10, Vol.347 (16), p.1279
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antigens Cerebrospinal fluid Denervation Fever Glucose Guillain-Barre syndrome Headaches Infections Magnetic resonance imaging Paralysis Pathology Patients Poliomyelitis Proteins Rehabilitation Spinal cord West Nile virus
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Zusammenfassung:	To the Editor: In his Perspective article,1 Voelkel proposes that inflammation is a causal factor in high-altitude pulmonary edema. We suggest that recent evidence supports a view that inflammation may not be pathogenetic in highaltitude pulmonary edema. Rather, the condition has a hydrostatic basis with unique fluid characteristics.
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406