Elevated Liver Enzymes in an Adult Male With Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report

Anorexia nervosa is a prevalent eating disorder often accompanied by various medical complications, along with increased liver serum enzymes, especially transaminases. Here, we describe the case of an adult male patient admitted to a general hospital. The patient presented with malnourishment arisin...

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Autor principal: Kintrilis, Nikolaos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36514589
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31367
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description Anorexia nervosa is a prevalent eating disorder often accompanied by various medical complications, along with increased liver serum enzymes, especially transaminases. Here, we describe the case of an adult male patient admitted to a general hospital. The patient presented with malnourishment arising from AN and severely affected liver function tests.
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spelling pubmed-97418402022-12-12 Elevated Liver Enzymes in an Adult Male With Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report Kintrilis, Nikolaos Cureus Internal Medicine Anorexia nervosa is a prevalent eating disorder often accompanied by various medical complications, along with increased liver serum enzymes, especially transaminases. Here, we describe the case of an adult male patient admitted to a general hospital. The patient presented with malnourishment arising from AN and severely affected liver function tests. Cureus 2022-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9741840/ /pubmed/36514589 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31367 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kintrilis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Elevated Liver Enzymes in an Adult Male With Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report
title Elevated Liver Enzymes in an Adult Male With Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report
title_full Elevated Liver Enzymes in an Adult Male With Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report
title_fullStr Elevated Liver Enzymes in an Adult Male With Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Elevated Liver Enzymes in an Adult Male With Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report
title_short Elevated Liver Enzymes in an Adult Male With Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report
title_sort elevated liver enzymes in an adult male with anorexia nervosa: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36514589
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