Problem based review: the morbidly obese patient.
A 46-year old lady presented to the AMU with chest pain and shortness of breath. She weighed 345 kg. She was normally mobile up to 10 metres but had become bedbound over the past week with increasing shortness of breath.
Acute Medicine (Severn Deanery), Frenchay Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, BS15 1LE, UK.
Fenella G
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Maggs
D050110:Bariatric Surgery / Q000009:adverse effects; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D011859:Radiography