A “Pickwickian” Syndrome

Extreme obesity associated with alveolar hypoventilation—A pickwickian syndrome

C. Sidney Burwell, Eugene D. Robin, Robert D. Whaley et al. · The American Journal of Medicine · 1956 · 933 citations

Medicine, Physiology, Pathophysiology +12

CLINICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF A CASE OF OBESITY, POLYCYTHEMIA AND ALVEOLAR HYPOVENTILATION

J. Howland Auchincloss, Ellen Cook, Attilio D. Renzetti · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1955 · 163 citations · Full text

Medicine, Internal Medicine, Physiology +13

A peculiar type of cardiopulmonary failure associated with obesity

Douglas Carroll · The American Journal of Medicine · 1956 · 84 citations

Life Sciences, Physiology, Pathophysiology +10

POLYCYTHEMIA OF OBESITY: FURTHER STUDIES OF ITS MECHANISM AND A REPORT OF TWO ADDITIONAL CASES

Annals of Internal Medicine · 1957 · 22 citations

Medicine, Endocrinology, Hematology +7