Anorexia Nervosa: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Anorexia Nervosa: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Overview: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric disorder with severe physiologic consequences, characterized by the inability or refusal to maintain a minimally normal weight. Patients have a profoundly disturbed body image as well as an intense fear ...

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Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder in which patients are unable or refuse to maintain a minimally normal weight.http://bit.ly/dkTfH6

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Acute gastric dilatation in a patient with anorexi... [J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2010] - PubMed result

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