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From what I've read of his death, it sounds like he was killed by high-altitude cerebral edema.

I get pitting edema from sitting too much - I actually get less swelling from standing.

The first clinical symptom is pitting edema, and the severity shocked me when I first noticed it.

The link between sodium and edema, water retention, and kidney stress is not inconclusive.

"> "This leads to vasodilation, edema, and pain which translates into the classically red, painful skin seen in a sunburn.

While that all makes sense, it also seems possible that deaths happen on the descent simply because it takes that long above 8,000 feet for cerebral edema to kill you.

When you have a myocardial infarction or acute pulmonary edema inflight, you'll be glad there's morphine available.

I frequently see hypertension become so bad that it causes flash pulmonary edema, and patients literally arrive drowning in their own lungs and unable to breath.

My guess: severe burns, pulmonary edema and cardiovascular collapse.

[...] All subjects showed slight neutrophilia, increased transaminase, and facial edema which returned to normal within 72 hours after decompression.

"[30] The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.

This is a bit off topic, but according to wikipedia; "Adverse reactions to adrenaline include palpitations, tachycardia, arrhythmia, anxiety, headache, tremor, hypertension, and acute pulmonary edema.