POLYCYTHEMIA OF OBESITY: FURTHER STUDIES OF ITS MECHANISM AND A REPORT OF TWO ADDITIONAL CASES
Authors: A S PRASAD, M H WEIL
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1957)

Article1 January 1957POLYCYTHEMIA OF OBESITY: FURTHER STUDIES OF ITS MECHANISM AND A REPORT OF TWO ADDITIONAL CASESMAX H. WEIL, M.D., ANANDA S. PRASAD, M.D.MAX H. WEIL, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, ANANDA S. PRASAD, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-46-1-60 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptA relationship between polycythemia and obesity became apparent to us during observation of a massively obese patient who had serious renal, hepatic and cardiorespiratory disturbances, as well as marked polycythemia. Polycythemia and the other disturbances were remarkably reversed in this patient by dietary weight reduction without any other therapy.1, 2Baez Villaseñor and his co-workers3had previously described a 5% incidence of polycythemia in a group of 240 obese patients studied in Mexico. Incidental reference to the presence of obesity in cases of atypical erythremia and the observation of unusual plethora in obese individuals were made by several other authors.4-6...Bibliography1. WeilPrasad MHAS: Polycythemia of obesity, Clin. Res. Proc. 3: 194, 1955. Google Scholar2. Weil MH: Polycythemia associated with obesity, J. A. M. A. 159: 1592, 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Baez VillaseñorDominguez TorixRodriguez JJLR: Policitemia y obesidad: informe preliminar, Rev. Invest. Clin. 3: 57, 1951. MedlineGoogle Scholar4. HowardMills CPES: Obesity, in the Oxford Loose-Leaf Medicine, Christian, H. A., editor, 1949, Vol. 4, Pt. 1, Oxford University Press, New York, p. 195. Google Scholar5. NewmanFeltmanDevlin WJAB: Pulmonary function studies in polycythemia vera: results in five probable cases, Am. J. Med. 11: 706, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. LawrenceBerlinHuff JHNIRL: Nature and treatment of polycythemia: studies on 263 patients, Medicine 32: 323, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar7. AuchinclossCookRenzetti JHEAD: Clinical and physiological aspects of a case of obesity, polycythemia, and alveolar hypoventilation, J. Clin. Investigation 34: 1537, 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar8. SiekerEstesKelserMcIntosh HOEHGAHD: A cardiopulmonary syndrome associated with extreme obesity, J. Clin. Investigation 34: 916, 1955. Google Scholar9. ComroeForsterDuboisBriscoeCarlsen JHREABWAE: The lung: clinical physiology and pulmonary function tests, 1955, The Year Book Publishers, Chicago. Google Scholar10. RattoBriscoeMortonComroe OWAJWJH: Anoxemia secondary to polycythemia and polycythemia secondary to anoxemia, Am. J. Med. 19: 958, 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar11. ThompsonMaison APFG: Polycythemia with fibroids, Lancet 2: 759, 1953. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. HorwitzMcKelway AWP: Polycythemia associated with uterine myomas, J. A. M. A. 158: 1360, 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar13. EngelSinger HWK: Polycythemia with fibroids, J. A. M. A. 159: 190, 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar14. WilsonSprague AEPH: Case of erythraemia complicated by ascites, Canad. M. A. J. 33: 167, 1935. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: MAX H. WEIL, M.D.; ANANDA S. PRASAD, M.D.Affiliations: Minneapolis, Minnesota*Received for publication June 22, 1956.From the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, and the Medical Services of University Hospitals and Veterans Administration Hospital, Minneapolis.Requests for reprints should be addressed to the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, Minnesota. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byThe pathophysiology of obesity hypoventilation syndromeMeperidine infusion for postoperative analgesia in grossly obese patientsRespiratory function and cardiorespiratory response to exercise in obesityCough and DyspneaPickwick-SyndromSchlafstörungen und Pickwick-SyndromThe Pickwickian syndromeErythrocythemiaABNORMALITIES OF PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE IN OBESITY*†SAMI I. SAID, M.D.�ber Beziehungen zwischen Fettanteil des K�rpers, zirkulierendem Blutvolumen und ven�sem H�matokritOBESITY WITH POLYCYTHEMIA: REPORT OF A CASE*GADIEL M. SMITH, M.D., F.A.C.P.The primary hypoventilation syndromeThe cardiorespiratory syndrome related to obesity: Clinical manifestations and pathologic physiologyThe Cardiorespiratory Syndrome of ObesityA “Pickwickian” Syndrome 1 January 1957Volume 46, Issue 1 Page: 60-67 Keywords Hemoglobin Hospital medicine Hypoxia Medical services Obesity Overweight Polycythemia Polycythemia vera Respiration Weight loss ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 January 1957 PDF downloadLoading ...