Treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa

Inherent to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are a plethora of medical complications which correlate with the severity of weight loss or the frequency and mode of purging. Yet, the encouraging fact is that most of these medical complications are treatable and reversible with definitive care and...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mehler, Philip S, Krantz, Mori J, Sachs, Katherine V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25874112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-015-0041-7
_version_ 1782366602268770304
author Mehler, Philip S
Krantz, Mori J
Sachs, Katherine V
author_facet Mehler, Philip S
Krantz, Mori J
Sachs, Katherine V
author_sort Mehler, Philip S
collection PubMed
description Inherent to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are a plethora of medical complications which correlate with the severity of weight loss or the frequency and mode of purging. Yet, the encouraging fact is that most of these medical complications are treatable and reversible with definitive care and cessation of the eating-disordered behaviours. Herein, these treatments are described for both the medical complications of anorexia nervosa and those which are a result of bulimia nervosa.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-4396567
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2015
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-43965672015-04-15 Treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa Mehler, Philip S Krantz, Mori J Sachs, Katherine V J Eat Disord Review Inherent to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are a plethora of medical complications which correlate with the severity of weight loss or the frequency and mode of purging. Yet, the encouraging fact is that most of these medical complications are treatable and reversible with definitive care and cessation of the eating-disordered behaviours. Herein, these treatments are described for both the medical complications of anorexia nervosa and those which are a result of bulimia nervosa. BioMed Central 2015-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4396567/ /pubmed/25874112 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-015-0041-7 Text en © Mehler et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Review
Mehler, Philip S
Krantz, Mori J
Sachs, Katherine V
Treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
title Treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
title_full Treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
title_fullStr Treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
title_full_unstemmed Treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
title_short Treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
title_sort treatments of medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25874112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-015-0041-7
work_keys_str_mv AT mehlerphilips treatmentsofmedicalcomplicationsofanorexianervosaandbulimianervosa
AT krantzmorij treatmentsofmedicalcomplicationsofanorexianervosaandbulimianervosa
AT sachskatherinev treatmentsofmedicalcomplicationsofanorexianervosaandbulimianervosa

Ejemplares similares