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Heath D, Harris P, Sui GJ, et al. Pulmonary blood vessels and endocrine cells in subacute infantile mountain sickness. Respir Med. 1989;83(1):77-81doi: 10.1016/s0954-6111(89)80064-2.
Heath, D., Harris, P., Sui, G. J., Liu, Y. H., Gosney, J., Harris, E., & Anand, I. S. (1989). Pulmonary blood vessels and endocrine cells in subacute infantile mountain sickness. Respiratory medicine, 83(1), 77-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0954-6111(89)80064-2
Heath, D, et al. "Pulmonary blood vessels and endocrine cells in subacute infantile mountain sickness." Respiratory medicine vol. 83,1 (1989): 77-81. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0954-6111(89)80064-2
Heath D, Harris P, Sui GJ, Liu YH, Gosney J, Harris E, Anand IS. Pulmonary blood vessels and endocrine cells in subacute infantile mountain sickness. Respir Med. 1989 Jan;83(1):77-81. doi: 10.1016/s0954-6111(89)80064-2. PMID: 2531458.
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Respir Med. 1989 Jan;83(1):77-81. doi: 10.1016/s0954-6111(89)80064-2.

Pulmonary blood vessels and endocrine cells in subacute infantile mountain sickness.

Respiratory medicine

D Heath, P Harris, G J Sui, Y H Liu, J Gosney, E Harris, I S Anand

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  1. Department of Pathology, University of Liverpool, U.K.

PMID: 2531458 DOI: 10.1016/s0954-6111(89)80064-2

Abstract

A male infant of 16 months, of the Han race, died from subacute infantile mountain sickness in Lhasa (3600 m). At necropsy there was right ventricular hypertrophy secondary to muscularization of the pulmonary arteries and arterioles thought to have been induced by hypobaric hypoxia. In addition, there was intimal proliferation of myofibroblasts in the pulmonary arterioles, venules and veins. There were increased numbers within the bronchioles of pulmonary endocrine cells, containing calcitonin and bombesin, which could be related to hypoxia or trophic effects on the pulmonary vasculature. The relation of delayed effects of hypoxia to primary pulmonary hypertension is considered in this study.

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