Table 2. Overview of altitude sicknesses.

	Symptoms	Findings	Recommended reading
Acute mountain sickness (AMS)	Headache Anorexia Nausea Dizziness Sleep disturbance "Hangover" feeling	Sometimes, peripheral edema Head MRI: no significant degree of cerebral edema	{7}
High-altitude cerebral edema (HACE)	Intractable AMS symptoms as harbinger of HACE Ataxia Impaired consciousness Coma	Truncal ataxia, somnolence ranging to coma Marked hypoxemia Head MRI: microhemorrhages	(10)
High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE)	Impaired performance Dyspnea Orthopnea Cough	Wet rales in lower and middle pulmonary fields Very low oxygen saturation Cyanosis Chest X-ray: alveolar edema	(12)