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| ==Overview==
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| '''HAFE''' or '''High Altitude Flatus Expulsion''' is a [[gastrointestinal]] syndrome which involves the spontaneous passage of increased quantities of [[rectal gases]] at high altitudes.<ref>Medicine For the Outdoors by Paul S. Auerbach, M.D. © 1999 by Paul S. Auerbach, M.D.</ref> First described by Joseph Hamel in c. 1820. <ref>http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/152702901753397135?cookieSet=1&journalCode=ham</ref>It was rediscovered in 1981 by Paul Auerbach and York Miller.<ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1272559</ref>
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| ==See Also==
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| *[[HAPE]], High Altitude Pulmonary Edema
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| *[[High altitude cerebral edema]]
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Mountaineering]]
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| [[Category:Flatulence]]
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| [[Category:Gastroenterology]]
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