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Can we predict the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with anorexia nervosa?

BACKGROUND: Acute gastric dilatation can develop in patients with anorexia nervosa who are being refed to achieve weight restoration. If unrecognized, this condition is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patients with acute gastric dilatation usually have abdominal pain, nausea, an...

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Autores principales: Anderson, Kristin, Watters, Ashlie, Dee, Elizabeth, Mehler, Philip S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10688114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38031186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00937-2
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description BACKGROUND: Acute gastric dilatation can develop in patients with anorexia nervosa who are being refed to achieve weight restoration. If unrecognized, this condition is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patients with acute gastric dilatation usually have abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Abdominal imaging confirms the diagnosis. This study aims to identify risk factors associated with the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with severe restrictive eating disorders in order to hasten diagnosis and guide treatment. This study also aims to define the clinical outcomes of patients with acute gastric dilatation. METHODS: In this retrospective case series, 15 patients with a restrictive eating disorder were studied. Multiple variables were assessed for significant correlation with stomach size. RESULTS: 15 patients with a restrictive eating disorder were identified as being diagnosed with acute gastric dilatation through chart review during the study period. The average dilated stomach size was 20.5 cm. There was no significant correlation of stomach size with any of the following: % ideal body weight on day of admission, % ideal body weight on day of imaging study, rate of weight gain (kg per week), or duration of illness. Serum levels of sodium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen, glucose, albumin, and hematocrit on the day of imaging, did not correlate with stomach size. All patients were treated with conservative management. None of the patients required surgical intervention or progressed to gastric necrosis or perforation, and there were no recurrences of the acute gastric dilatation. CONCLUSIONS: There are no specific risk factors significantly associated with the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with severe restrictive eating disorders. Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for this condition when patients are experiencing abdominal pain, nausea, or vomiting. When promptly diagnosed and treated, outcomes are good. If diagnosis is delayed, the outcome can be dire.
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spelling pubmed-106881142023-11-30 Can we predict the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with anorexia nervosa? Anderson, Kristin Watters, Ashlie Dee, Elizabeth Mehler, Philip S. J Eat Disord Research BACKGROUND: Acute gastric dilatation can develop in patients with anorexia nervosa who are being refed to achieve weight restoration. If unrecognized, this condition is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patients with acute gastric dilatation usually have abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Abdominal imaging confirms the diagnosis. This study aims to identify risk factors associated with the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with severe restrictive eating disorders in order to hasten diagnosis and guide treatment. This study also aims to define the clinical outcomes of patients with acute gastric dilatation. METHODS: In this retrospective case series, 15 patients with a restrictive eating disorder were studied. Multiple variables were assessed for significant correlation with stomach size. RESULTS: 15 patients with a restrictive eating disorder were identified as being diagnosed with acute gastric dilatation through chart review during the study period. The average dilated stomach size was 20.5 cm. There was no significant correlation of stomach size with any of the following: % ideal body weight on day of admission, % ideal body weight on day of imaging study, rate of weight gain (kg per week), or duration of illness. Serum levels of sodium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen, glucose, albumin, and hematocrit on the day of imaging, did not correlate with stomach size. All patients were treated with conservative management. None of the patients required surgical intervention or progressed to gastric necrosis or perforation, and there were no recurrences of the acute gastric dilatation. CONCLUSIONS: There are no specific risk factors significantly associated with the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with severe restrictive eating disorders. Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for this condition when patients are experiencing abdominal pain, nausea, or vomiting. When promptly diagnosed and treated, outcomes are good. If diagnosis is delayed, the outcome can be dire. BioMed Central 2023-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10688114/ /pubmed/38031186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00937-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Can we predict the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with anorexia nervosa?
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title_fullStr Can we predict the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with anorexia nervosa?
title_full_unstemmed Can we predict the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with anorexia nervosa?
title_short Can we predict the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with anorexia nervosa?
title_sort can we predict the development of acute gastric dilatation in patients with anorexia nervosa?
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10688114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38031186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00937-2
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