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cardiopulmonary-obesity syndrome [1 record]

Record 1 2012-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bronchi
DEF

Severe obesity associated with somnolence, muscular twitching, congestive heart failure, and arterial hypoxia and hypercapnia.

OBS

From the "fat boy" character in Dickens Pickwick Papers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bronches
DEF

Obésité importante chez une personne de petite taille, accompagnée d'accès périodiques de somnolence et de tremblements musculaires, d'une polyglobulie avec cyanose et une hypoventilation pulmonaire.

OBS

Pickwick, personnage connu du roman de Dickens du même nom, qui présentait ces symptômes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bronquios
DEF

Síndrome caracterizado por una obesidad extrema y una hipoventilación alveolar crónica, con hipoxemia e hipercapnia; y también por somnolencia, sacudidas musculares, respiración periódica, cianosis con poliglobulia, hipertrofia ventricular derecha y, finalmente, una insuficiencia cardiaca derecha.

OBS

Pacientes obesos con somnolencia, hipercapnia, lipoxia, policitemia, hipertensión pulmonar.

OBS

(Del aspecto de un personaje de la novela de C. Dickens, (Descrito por Sieker y col. 1955, denominado Burwell y col. en 1956).

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