term used to characterize a patient who is obese, falls asleep easily during the day and has an elevated level of blood carbon dioxide.
The combination of obesity, somnolence (sleepiness), hypoventilation (underbreathing), and plethoric (red) face.
This type of difficulty breathing and heart insufficiency is related to extreme obesity and was discussed in the famous book by Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers.
the first term applied to obstructive sleep apnea, originally described by Charles Dickens in 1836. It referred to people who were excessively sleepy, loud snorers, and overweight.
An old term for large people with problems of underbreathing. Included a lot of diagnoses. No longer used by those who know
Obesity accompanied by sleepiness, lethargy, chronic hypoventilation, low oxygen levels, and secondary polycythemia (a condition marked by an abnormal increase in the number of circulating red blood cells). Usually has severe obstructive sleep apnea.
Pickwickian Syndrome is a distinctive form of obstructive sleep apnea associated with being overweight, having a large neck, fat buildup around the soft tissues of the neck, and loss of muscle tone with aging It is the combination of severe obesity, suffering from obstructive sleep apnea causing hypoxia and hypercapnia resulting in marked daytime somnolence . It is also known as Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndrome.
The Pickwickian syndrome, also known as obesity hypoventilation syndrome, is the combination of severe obesity, suffering from obstructive sleep apnea causing hypoxia and hypercapnia resulting in marked daytime somnolence and chronic respiratory acidosis. Although it is an eponym, it is not named after the doctor who first described it (as commonly happens) but after a literary character by Charles Dickens.
