Inspiratory Muscle Failure on Exercise in Chronic Left Heart Failure

1990 ◽  
Vol 79 (s23) ◽  
pp. 7P-7P ◽  
Author(s):  
SW Davies ◽  
SL Jordan ◽  
NB Pride ◽  
DP Lipkin
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Inspiratory Muscle ◽  
Left Heart ◽  
Left Heart Failure

Pickwick syndrome

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
V. I. Zhukov
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Right Heart Failure ◽  
Cor Pulmonale ◽  
Left Heart ◽  
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome ◽  
Right Heart ◽  
Left Heart Failure ◽  
Hypoventilation Syndrome ◽  
Obesity Hypoventilation

Obesity, as you know, is often combined with atherosclerosis, hypertension and their characteristic left-heart failure. Least of all, in our opinion, obesity is associated with cor pulmonale and right-heart failure. "Pickwick syndrome", it is also known as "Ioe syndrome", "cardiopulmonary syndrome of patients with obesity", "obesity-hypoventilation syndrome".

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