Heart disease

High Altitude Heart Disease (High Altitude Heart Disease) is characterized by pulmonary hypertension caused by chronic hypobaric hypoxia, and has right ventricular hypertrophy or right ventricular dysfunction. It is another type of chronic altitude sickness that can be divided into pediatric and adult altitude sickness. The disease is susceptible to plateaus above 3500m, and most of them are chronic. Individuals who have entered the plateau, especially children, can develop acute or subacute illness. It is called subacute mountian sickness abroad. Patients with acute or subacute disease are characterized by significant right ventricular enlargement and congestive right heart failure caused by pulmonary hypertension, while patients with chronic disease are characterized by multiple organs, which are mainly due to right ventricular hypertrophy caused by overloaded right ventricle. damage.

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