Heart failure during treatment of anorexia nervosa
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 139 (9) , 1167-1170
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.9.1167
Abstract
Data on 3 anorectic patients who developed heart failure during the nutritional rehabilitation phase of their treatment are presented. After discussing possible reasons for the patients'' cardiac decompensation, procedures for the prevention and early detection of heart failure in anorectic patients during the recovery phase are suggested.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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