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What means “underlying lung condition”??? I gonna try explain better: In Beginner of the year (12 of January) I was in Bolivia to make a hiking until Peru (destiny Machu Picchu –“ Lost City of the Incas”). When I was in La Paz, I went to a mountain called Huayna Potosi that has 6.088 meters (18264 feet) of height. I never had make hiking in my life and that was my first time in a mountain, I never got more that 3.000 meters (9,000 feet) of altitude (of course that during my jumps, but never in the ground and in skydiving the time of exposition to altitude is very small). We went from 3.000 until 5.550 meters in 2 hours (so we don’t have time to the body get used with the altitude). Our guide got lost with us and we stay in the mountain lost something like 4 hours with snow, rain and temperature was in –5º Celsius. We find the way, and during the night I start to be seek. Because of altitude I had “High Altitude Pulmonary Edema” and “Subcutaneous emphysema”. I stay in the hospital for 11 days, and comeback to Brazil after that.

Ok, no problems...

The name of this in Portuguese is Enfisema Subcutaneo, and in English is Subcutaneous emphysema (gas under the skin tissue), that is a kind of Barotrauma. Is very common in diving. Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between an air space inside or beside the body and the surrounding gas or liquid. Subcutaneous emphysema occurs when air gets into tissues under the skin covering the chest wall or neck. This can happen due to stabbing, gun shot wounds, other penetrations, or blunt trauma.

Hi, I’m from Brazil so my English is not so good, but I going to try… In beginning of the year I had a Subcutaneous emphysema because I was trying to scale a mountain in Bolivia that has 6088 meters of height (i don’t know if it writes like this....) The doctor in Bolivia told me that has no problem, but the doctor here in Brazil told that is not recommended for cause of pressure difference, or something like this.... Someone here knows if I can come back to do my jumps????