TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Sleep Apnea Syndromes: Central and Obstructive
A1  - Pien, Grace W.
A1  - Rosen, Ilene M.
A1  - Fields, Barry G.
A2  - Grippi, Michael A.
A2  - Antin-Ozerkis, Danielle E.
A2  - Dela Cruz, Charles S.
A2  - Kotloff, Robert M.
A2  - Kotton, Camille Nelson
A2  - Pack, Allan I.
PY  - 2023
T2  - Fishman’s Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 6e
AB  - Sleep-disordered  breathing  (SDB)  is  an  extremely  common  disorder  associated  with  significant  morbidity.  Recognition  of  its  relevance  in  medicine  is  relatively  recent,  although  clinical  reports  of  SDB  were  first  made  in  the  19th  century.1  Likely  influenced  by  such  observations,  descriptions  of  an  entity  constituting  obesity  and  extreme  somnolence  were  highlighted  in  the  character  narrative  of  Joe  in  Charles  Dickens’s  series  Posthumous  Papers  of  the  Pickwick  Club,  first  published  in  1837.2  Dickens  described  Joe  as  a  loud  snorer  who  was  obese  and  excessively  somnolent—the  classic  description  of  Pickwickian  syndrome.  Sir  William  Osler  in  1918  was  credited  with  first  linking  the  relationship  between  obesity  and  Pickwickian  syndrome.3  In  the  mid-20th  century,  further  work  led  to  the  association  of  Pickwickian  syndrome  with  alveolar  hypoventilation  by  Burwell  et  al.  in  1956,  and  periodic  cessation  of  respiration  by  Drachman  and  Gumnit  in  1962.4,5  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/23
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195011677
ER  -