consciousness disorders/비만증

Obstructive sleep apnea, obesity-related hypoventilation - a hypoventilation which is independent of apneas and increased by sleep -, and hypoxemia related to local ventilation-perfusion disorders are the main mechanisms of respiratory failure occurring during acute respiratory decompensation

The patient with a decreased level of consciousness in the absence of trauma presents difficult assessment and intervention problems. This is compounded when the history is vague or nonspecific. In this case, the patient's history of embolic CVA alerted providers to the possibility of another

This study was designed to investigate the prevalence of risk factors, etiology, clinical course and outcome of the first-ever ischemic stroke in patients aged at least 85 when compared with younger patients with ischemic stroke. We studied 802 patients with first-ever ischemic stroke, including 103