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Preferred term

Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndrome
  • Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndromes
  • Pickwickian Syndrome

Scope note

  • HYPOVENTILATION syndrome in very obese persons with excessive ADIPOSE TISSUE around the ABDOMEN and DIAPHRAGM. It is characterized by diminished to absent ventilatory chemoresponsiveness; chronic HYPOXIA; HYPERCAPNIA; POLYCYTHEMIA; and long periods of sleep during day and night (HYPERSOMNOLENCE). It is a condition often related to OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA but can occur separately.

History note

  • 2006 (1970); use PICKWICK SYNDROME 1964-1969

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • extrem fetma med alveolär hypoventilation
  • lihavuus- ja hypoventilaatio-oireyhtymä
  • obesitas extrema cum hypoventilatione alveolari
  • Pickwick
  • Pickwick-syndrooma
  • Pickwicksyndrom
  • syndroma Pickwick
  • vaikea lihavuus ja keuhkoalveolien hypoventilaatio
  • vaikeaan liikapainoon liittyvä hengitysvajaus
  • Swedish

  • Pickwicksyndrom

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010845

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