Of particular interest to pulmonary and sleep medicine physicians is the entity of obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), formerly known as Pickwickian syndrome. Most patients with OHS also will be found to present with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which appears to play a major role in the ...
Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is defined as chronic hypercapnia during wakefulness in obese subjects not attributable to underlying respiratory disease. From: Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome, 2020 About this pageAdd to MendeleySet alert
Obesity hypoventilation syndrome:This condition is alternatively referred to as Pickwickian syndrome and is defined by 3 criteria in the absence of other causes—obesity, daytime hypercapnia, and sleep-disordered breathing. The development of obesity hypoventilation syndrome is complex but can be attributed...
Data obtained in the evaluation of seven children diagnosed with obesity-hypoventilation are examined. The classic features of this syndrome are reviewed and found to be indicative of late disease. Reliance upon these features may lead to underdiagnosis. New diagnostic criteria, allowing for earlier ...
Excess of body fat may be accompanied by structural and functional abnormalities that reduced quality of life, as gastrointestinal reflux disease, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, obstructive sleep apnea/obesity hypoventilation syndrome, psychological and eating behavior disorders, anxiety and depression, ...
4_MeetingAbstracts Abstract: Poster Presentations | October 2005 OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME: AN UNDERRECOGNIZED ENTITY Farooq Sattar, MD*; Alex Duarte, MD; Luigi Terminella, MD; Gulshan Sharma, MBBS University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX Chest. 2005;128(4_MeetingAbstracts):231S. ...
As a consequences, people with obesity (body mass index [BMI ]> 30) may experience diminished ventilatory drive and capacity also known as the obesity hypoventilation syndrome (Pickwickian syndrome) [8]. Obesity is associated with physical inactivity, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and cardiovascular ...
(eg benign intracranial hypertension, sleep apnoea, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, orthopaedic problems and psychological morbidity) children with a suspected underlying medical (eg endocrine) cause of obesity including all children under 24 months of age who are severely obese (BMI 99.6thcentile).D ...
The ESS can be used to assess the risk of OSA, but, in the presence of clinical symptoms, assessment for obesity hypoventilation syndrome/OSA might be warranted. For screening patients who are candidates for bariatric surgery, the STOP-BANG questionnaire is preferable to ESS for OSA.38 Echocardi...
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