Chronic mountain sickness (Monge's disease)
Mal de montaña crónico (enfermedad de Monge)
- Date
- 1925-1928 · confidence high
- Place
- Lima, Peru
- Credited to
- Carlos Monge Medrano
- People
- 👤 Carlos Monge Medrano1884–1970
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Monge described a disease of high-altitude dwellers caused by an excess of red blood cells and a loss of adaptation to hypoxia. He founded Andean altitude physiology.
Alberto Hurtado continued the school at Morococha.
What it led to
- the Institute of Andean Biology
- studies of genetic adaptation to altitude
- mountain medicine