COVID-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: Lethal psychological complication of the pandemic

We report a young female having severe pallor and breathlessness on presentation, being diagnosed as a case of megaloblastic anemia, which was confirmed on bone marrow biopsy. On detailed history taking, she was revealed to have anorexia nervosa precipitated due to extreme fear of COVID-19 along wit...

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Autores principales: Khanna, Shivam, Talwar, Dhruv, Kumar, Sunil, Acharya, Sourya, Shukla, Samarth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35360766
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1906_21
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author Khanna, Shivam
Talwar, Dhruv
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Acharya, Sourya
Shukla, Samarth
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description We report a young female having severe pallor and breathlessness on presentation, being diagnosed as a case of megaloblastic anemia, which was confirmed on bone marrow biopsy. On detailed history taking, she was revealed to have anorexia nervosa precipitated due to extreme fear of COVID-19 along with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thus, a psychiatric disorder presenting due to simple phobia of COVID-19 can also have a fatal outcome in the young. Therefore, psychiatric health needs urgent attention by physicians, governments, and policymakers across the globe to prevent the surge of mental illness during the ongoing pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-89636492022-03-30 COVID-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: Lethal psychological complication of the pandemic Khanna, Shivam Talwar, Dhruv Kumar, Sunil Acharya, Sourya Shukla, Samarth J Family Med Prim Care Case Report We report a young female having severe pallor and breathlessness on presentation, being diagnosed as a case of megaloblastic anemia, which was confirmed on bone marrow biopsy. On detailed history taking, she was revealed to have anorexia nervosa precipitated due to extreme fear of COVID-19 along with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thus, a psychiatric disorder presenting due to simple phobia of COVID-19 can also have a fatal outcome in the young. Therefore, psychiatric health needs urgent attention by physicians, governments, and policymakers across the globe to prevent the surge of mental illness during the ongoing pandemic. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-02 2022-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8963649/ /pubmed/35360766 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1906_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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COVID-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: Lethal psychological complication of the pandemic
title COVID-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: Lethal psychological complication of the pandemic
title_full COVID-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: Lethal psychological complication of the pandemic
title_fullStr COVID-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: Lethal psychological complication of the pandemic
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: Lethal psychological complication of the pandemic
title_short COVID-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: Lethal psychological complication of the pandemic
title_sort covid-19 fear-induced anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder leading to fatal megaloblastic anemia: lethal psychological complication of the pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35360766
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1906_21
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