Tennis star's hospitalization for altitude sickness

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

Former tennis champion Martina Navratilova was hospitalized for pulmonary edema -- fluid build-up in the lungs -- while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, drawing attention to the high risk of acute mountain sickness (AMS) and high altitude pulmonary edema.

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