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Complications of Emergency Refeeding in Anorexia Nervosa: Case series and review

Author(s) -

Gwilym J. Webb,

Kathryn E. Smith,

Fergus ThursbyPelham,

Trevor Smith,

Mike Stroud,

Armanda Silva

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

acute medicine journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.14

H-Index - 12

eISSN - 1747-4892

pISSN - 1747-4884

DOI - 10.52964/amja.0470

Subject(s) - refeeding syndrome , anorexia nervosa , anorexia , medicine , pediatrics , psychiatry , eating disorders , psychology , malnutrition

The refeeding syndrome is common among patients with anorexia nervosa. It may be lethal and has many manifestations. We report a case series of 14 anorexic patients admitted for feeding to a single British centre. There was a high prevalence of the refeeding syndrome, with three cases requiring higher dependency unit support and one death. We present a review of the refeeding syndrome in anorectics and highlight our impression that infection among such patients may be serious and under-recognised.

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