Resumen

MAREE CLAURE, Osear G; MURILLO POZO, Danítza X; CHALIAPA L, Milenka  y  AQUINO R, Rosario. Pickwick Syndrome: Case report. REVISTA MEDICIS [online]. 2009, n.5, pp. 34-36. ISSN 1818-5223.

The group of breathing alterations experienced by morbidly obese that take the hypoxemia, chronic hipercapnea with compensatory eritrocitosis and flaw heart right and ¡nadequacy heart right is known as syndrome of Pickwick. We present the clinical case of a female patient of 49 years old, single, coming from the rural área, with alterations in the nutritious habits since her childhood, ¡nterned in the General Hospital San Juan de Dios Oruro - Bolivia, the election method Diagnoses it is clinical, with an unfavorable evolution because it dies.

Palabras llave : Pickwick Syndrome.