Anorexia Nervosa Presenting as Reversible Hypoglycaemic Coma

1 March 1984

journal article
case report
Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Vol. 77 (3) , 193-195
https://doi.org/10.1177/014107688407700307

Abstract

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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