Pickwickian syndrome – Knowledge and References

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Descriptive and Psychodynamic Psychopathology EMIs

Published in Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju, Extended Matching Items for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018

Briquet’s syndrome.Capgras’ syndrome.Charles Bonnet syndrome.Cotard’s syndrome.Couvade syndrome.De Clérambault syndrome.Ekbom’s syndrome.Frégoli syndrome.Ganser syndrome.Meadow’s syndrome.Othello syndrome.Pickwickian syndrome.

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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018

Anton Sebastian

Pickwickian Syndrome Characterized by obesity, breathlessness and cyanosis accompanied by hypoventilation. From a fictional character in The Pickwick Papers written by Charles Dickens in 1837. It was introduced into medicine by Sir William Osler (1849–1919).

Case reports by William C. Roberts, MD, and colleagues (1961–2022)

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Published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2022

William C. Roberts

Many disease entities have been described initially as case reports: Ochronosis by Rudolph Virchow (1821–1920), sickle-cell anemia by James B. Herrick (1861–1954), and the Pickwickian syndrome (obesity-hyperventilation syndrome) by Charles Sydney Burwell (1893–1967) are just a few examples. Multiple first operations were described initially in the case report format, as well as the first effective anesthetic drug.