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Estimated incidence of high altitude retinal hemorrhages

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Acknowledgements

We would like to express great gratitude to M. Dominik Fischer for his enthusiastic contribution to the present work. In addition, we would also like to thank all participants in the study and the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) for their support.

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  1. Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Gabriel Willmann, Andreas Schatz & Florian Gekeler

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Katharinenhospital, Stuttgart, Germany

    Gabriel Willmann, Andreas Schatz & Florian Gekeler

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany

    Maximilian Schultheiss

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Gabriel Willmann received funds from the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS). Other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Willmann, G., Schatz, A., Gekeler, F. et al. Estimated incidence of high altitude retinal hemorrhages. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 256, 231–232 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-017-3795-6

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