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High Altitude Edema
- Definition
- Edema on ascending to altitudes over 2400 meters
- Related Conditions
- Acute Mountain Sickness
- High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE)
- High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE)
- Epidemiology
- More common in women
- Signs
- Facial and Leg Edema
- Provoked by high salt diet
- Resolves with diuresis on altitude descent
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