Evaluation of Serial Chest Radiographs of High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema Requiring Medical Evacuation from South Pole Station, Antarctica: From Diagnosis to Recovery

• Published in: Military Medicine
• Main Authors: Nowadly, Craig D, Solomon, Alex J, Burke, Sean M, Rose, John S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2020
• Subjects: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; General Medicine; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; South Pole; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usaa490; http://academic.oup.com/milmed/article-pdf/186/11-12/e1135/41067468/usaa490.pdf

ABSTRACT Introduction Chest radiography is a diagnostic tool commonly used by medical providers to assess high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). Although HAPE often causes a pattern of pulmonary edema with right lower lung predominance, previous research has shown that there is no single radiographic...