Pancytopenia due to Restrictive Food Intake in an Autistic Adult

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuro-behavioral syndrome that develops in childhood and can be comorbid with restrictive and avoidant food intake disorder. This case details a young man who was hospitalized with pancytopenia due to restrictive nutritional intake related to his severe ASD. He wa...

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Autores principales: Lowe, Danielle, Barrett, Christian, Shepherd, Chelsea, Charles, Jane, Kalivas, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9703469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36419220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096221139260
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author Lowe, Danielle
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Kalivas, Benjamin
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description Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuro-behavioral syndrome that develops in childhood and can be comorbid with restrictive and avoidant food intake disorder. This case details a young man who was hospitalized with pancytopenia due to restrictive nutritional intake related to his severe ASD. He was found to have undetectable vitamin B12 levels. His blood counts improved with transfusion, nutritional supplementation, and dental care. This report illustrates the importance of understanding ASD and potential medical complications of related behaviors.
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spelling pubmed-97034692022-11-29 Pancytopenia due to Restrictive Food Intake in an Autistic Adult Lowe, Danielle Barrett, Christian Shepherd, Chelsea Charles, Jane Kalivas, Benjamin J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuro-behavioral syndrome that develops in childhood and can be comorbid with restrictive and avoidant food intake disorder. This case details a young man who was hospitalized with pancytopenia due to restrictive nutritional intake related to his severe ASD. He was found to have undetectable vitamin B12 levels. His blood counts improved with transfusion, nutritional supplementation, and dental care. This report illustrates the importance of understanding ASD and potential medical complications of related behaviors. SAGE Publications 2022-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9703469/ /pubmed/36419220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096221139260 Text en © 2022 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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