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  1. Mechanisms Underlying Altitude-Induced and Group 3 Pulmonary Hypertension

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, January 2026, MDPI AG

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  2. Redefining chronic mountain sickness: insights from high-altitude research and clinical experience

    Article • Medical Review, August 2024, De Gruyter

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  3. Sixteen possible scientific explanations in support of lower COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate at high altitudes

    Article • February 2022, Center for Open Science

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  4. The Oxygen Transport Triad in High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema: A Perspective from the High Andes

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  5. RETRACTED: Acute Mountain Sickness, High Altitude Pulmonary Edema, and High Altitude Cerebral Edema: A view from the High Andes

    Article • Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, May 2021, Elsevier

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  6. Acute Mountain Sickness, High Altitude Pulmonary Edema, and High Altitude Cerebral Edema: An enhanced view from the High Andes, La Paz, Bolivia 3,500m

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  7. Decreased incidence, virus transmission capacity, and severity of COVID-19 at altitude on the American continent

    Article • PLOS One, March 2021, PLOS

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  8. Pneumolysis: a fundamental concept in COVID-19 lung disease

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  9. Re: “Mortality Attributed to COVID-19 in High-Altitude Populations” by Woolcott and Bergman

    Article • High Altitude Medicine & Biology, March 2021, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  10. COVID-19 critical patients: poor tolerance to hypoxia, insufficient red blood cells, and hypercapnia leading to ventilator ineffectiveness?

    Article • February 2021, Center for Open Science

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  11. Acute Mountain Sickness, High Altitude Pulmonary Edema, and High Altitude Cerebral Edema: A view from the High Andes

    Article • January 2021, Center for Open Science

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  12. COVID-19: Lung destruction and critically low oxygen

    Article • Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials, January 2021, Bentham Science Publishers

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja, Prof Kusal K. Das

  13. Pneumolysis and “Silent Hypoxemia” in COVID-19

    Article • Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  14. COVID-19 patients in the high-altitude areas of Bolivia and Peru manifest a substantive decrease in mortality

    Article • October 2020, Center for Open Science

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  15. Pneumolysis and “silent hypoxemia” in COVID-19

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  16. Coping with hypoxemia: Could erythropoietin (EPO) be an adjuvant treatment of COVID-19?

    Article • Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, August 2020, Elsevier

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  17. Decreased incidence, virus transmission capacity, and severity of COVID-19 at altitude on the American continent

    Article • July 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  18. Does the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 virus decrease at high-altitude?

    Article • Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, June 2020, Elsevier

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  19. COVID-19: Multiple Diseases Simulating Extreme High-Altitude Exposure? Oxygen Transport Physiology and Scarce Need of Ventilators; Andean Condor’s-Eye-View

    Article • May 2020, MDPI AG

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  20. Low Altitude Peripheral Edema (LAPE): The Opposite of HAPE or HACE

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  21. The Road to “Defeating Hypoxia” is a Timely Exposure to Chronic Hypoxia

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  22. Why is it Not Possible to Predict, Through Tests at Sea Level, Who Will Have AMS?

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  23. Extended longevity at high altitude: Benefits of exposure to chronic hypoxia

    Article • BLDE University Journal of Health Sciences, January 2017, Medknow

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  24. Letter to the Editor re: “Bicarbonate Values for Healthy Residents Living in Cities Above 1500 Meters of Altitude: A Theoretical Model and Systematic Review” by Ramirez-Sandoval et al. (High Alt Med Biol 2016;17:85-92)

    Article • High Altitude Medicine & Biology, September 2016, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  25. Authors' Response to “Letter to the Editor re: ‘Bicarbonate Values for Healthy Residents Living in Cities Above 1500 Meters of Altitude: A Theoretical Model and Systematic Review’” by Zubieta-Calleja et al. (High Alt Med Biol 2016;17:240)

    Article • High Altitude Medicine & Biology, September 2016, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  26. A unique, intuitive, creative, innovative, bold scientist in endless quest of the truth and a giant in high-altitude medicine: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo, "The Parvatha Guru" (May 20, 1926-September 17, 2015)

    Article • BLDE University Journal of Health Sciences, January 2016, Medknow

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  27. Polyerythrocythemia and Adaptation to High Altitude

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  28. Tolerance to Hypoxia: A High Altitude Paradox

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  29. High-Altitude Research and Its Practical Clinical Application

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  30. The in-vivo oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve at sea level and high altitude

    Article • Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  31. Do Over 200 Million Healthy Altitude Residents Really Suffer from Chronic Acid–Base Disorders?

    Article • Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  32. Lens autofluorescence is not increased at high altitude

    Article • Acta Ophthalmologica, March 2010, Wiley

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  33. Retinal Vessel Diameters in Relation to Hematocrit Variation during Acclimatization of Highlanders to Sea Level Altitude

    Article • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, August 2009, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  34. The Effect of High- to Low-Altitude Adaptation on the Multifocal Electroretinogram

    Article • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, August 2009, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  35. Decompression Sickness Following Seawater Hunting Using Underwater Scooters

    Article • Research in Sports Medicine, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  36. High Altitude Diving Depths

    Article • Research in Sports Medicine, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  37. Consensus Statement on Chronic and Subacute High Altitude Diseases

    Article • High Altitude Medicine & Biology, June 2005, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja

  38. Children at High Altitude: An International Consensus Statement by an Ad Hoc Committee of the International Society for Mountain Medicine, March 12, 2001

    Article • High Altitude Medicine & Biology, September 2001, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja