Myocardial Changes in a Patient With Anorexia Nervosa | Zendy

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Myocardial Changes in a Patient With Anorexia Nervosa

Author(s) -

Ihab Lamzabi,

Sahr Syed,

Vijaya Reddy,

Richa Jain,

Aparna Harbhajanka,

Ponni Arunkumar

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

american journal of clinical pathology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.859

H-Index - 128

eISSN - 1943-7722

pISSN - 0002-9173

DOI - 10.1309/ajcp4plff1ttkent

Subject(s) - autopsy , anorexia nervosa , medicine , ventricle , fibrosis , pathology , anorexia , myocardial fibrosis , lipofuscin , eating disorders , cardiology , psychiatry

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder with high mortality and morbidity. Much of the mortality is related to cardiovascular complications manifesting with electrocardiogram abnormalities and morphologic abnormalities documented on ultrasound. However, gross and histologic abnormalities in the heart have been rarely described in association with this eating disorder.

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