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Anorexia Nervosa Presenting as Reversible Hypoglycaemic Coma

Author(s) -

A. M. Zalin,

AF Lant

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688407700307

Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , coma (optics) , medicine , malnutrition , complication , hypoglycemia , consciousness , psychiatry , pediatrics , feature (linguistics) , surgery , endocrinology , psychology , diabetes mellitus , eating disorders , philosophy , linguistics , physics , neuroscience , optics

Hypoglycaemic coma was the presenting feature in two patients with anorexia nervosa, both of whom rapidly regained consciousness following intravenous administration of glucose. This uncommon complication of malnutrition does not appear to have been reported previously in anorexia nervosa.

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