Gastric dilatation in a girl with former obesity and atypical anorexia nervosa
✍ Scribed by Holtkamp, Kristian ;Mogharrebi, Rubin ;Hanisch, Charlotte ;Schumpelick, Volker ;Herpertz-Dahlmann, Beate
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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✦ Synopsis
Objective:
This case report describes a 16 year-old girl of normal weight with acute gastric dilatation due to binge eating habits.
Method and results:
Psychiatric assessment revealed a history of obesity and later atypical anorexia nervosa, but no current diagnosis of a typical eating disorder. after one month of daily binges a food excess was followed by an acute massive gastric dilatation which led to a laparotomy.
Discussion:
Clinicians should be aware that abnormal eating habits may cause severe somatic complications even in patients of normal weight who are not currently diagnosed as having a typical eating disorder. careful investigation of eating habits might have resulted in therapeutic gastric emptying at an earlier stage, thus avoiding the need for surgery in our patient.