Complications of emergency refeeding in anorexia nervosa: case series and review
Webb, G.J.; Smith, K.; Thursby-Pelham, F.; Smith, T.; Stroud, M.A.; Da Silva, A.N.
Acute Medicine 10(2): 69-76
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 1747-4892 PMID: 22041604 Document Number: 11748
The refeeding syndrome is common among patients with anorexia nervosa. It may be lethal and has many manifestations. We report a case series of 14 anorexic patients admitted for feeding to a single British centre. There was a high prevalence of the refeeding syndrome, with three cases requiring higher dependency unit support and one death. We present a review of the refeeding syndrome in anorectics and highlight our impression that infection among such patients may be serious and under-recognised.
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