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Named after a Charles Dickens tale involving a character with clinical signs of the syndrome of obstructive sleep apnea and obesity hypoventilation.
The combination of upper airway obstruction and reduced lung volumes from the restrictive ventilatory effect of obesity causes low blood oxygen and elevated carbon dioxide, with their associated physiological consequences.
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(2009). Pickwickian Syndrome. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_4589
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