Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome and Anesthesia.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Evaluation and Management of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2019
   Guideline
2. Perioperative Challenges in a Patient With Sturge-Weber and Obesity Hypoventilation Syndromes.Case reports in medicine · 2026
   Article
3. Unmasking the Complex Interplay of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome, Heart Failure, and Sleep Dysfunction: A Physiological and Psychological Perspective in a Digital Health World.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
   Review
4. Acute Respiratory Failure Secondary to Low-Dose Opioid Administration in a Patient With Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome After Undergoing Trans-sphenoidal Tumor Resection.Cureus · 2024
   Article
5. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome, literature review.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2024
   Review
6. Diagnosis and Management of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome during Labor.Case reports in anesthesiology · 2021
   Article
7. Anaesthetic Preparation of Obese Patients: Current Status on Optimal Work-up.Current obesity reports · 2017
   Review
8. Understanding Phenotypes of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Applications in Anesthesia, Surgery, and Perioperative Medicine.Anesthesia and analgesia · 2017
   Review
9. Chronic hypoventilation syndromes and sleep-related hypoventilation.Journal of thoracic disease · 2015
   Review
10. Staging of obesity-associated hypoventilation in patients with morbid obesity scheduled for bariatric surgery.Chronic respiratory disease
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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