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High-Altitude Polycythemia

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the french physician Viault traveled by train from Lima to Morococha, a small mining town situated at 4,520 m in the Peruvian Andes, in 1980. There he noted for the first time that the number of red cells increased at high altitude and thereby settled a dispute that had been argued for years about the mechanisms of acclimatization (11). Subsequently C. M. Monge and many of his followers in Peru fully described the polycythemia in high-altitude natives.

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Winslow, R.M. (1984). High-Altitude Polycythemia. In: West, J.B., Lahiri, S. (eds) High Altitude and Man. Clinical Physiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7525-5_15

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