nbme24/Block 2/Question#2
A 45-year-old man comes to the physician because of ...
Oxygen saturation
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Caused a cessation of breathing rather than a ↓ in lung volume although a patient could develop an obesity related restrictive lung disease thats not whats happening with this question.
+ 2019-08-02T13:27:20Z
submitted by brethren_md(39), 2019-06-04T20:09:22Z
Classic sleep apnea in the patient. Cessation of breathing causes nocturnal hypoxia and systemic hypertension/arrhythmic/sudden death can persist. PaO2 is normal during day and decreased during episodes and at night. Classically seen in Obese patients such as the patient in the question stem.