Fatal outcome from extreme acute gastric dilation after an eating binge

International Journal of Eating Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 602-605

  Gyurkovics, Endre ^a   Tihanyi, Balázs ^a   Szijarto, Attila ^a   Kaliszky, Péter ^a   Temesi, Viktoria ^a   Hedvig, S A S ^a   Kupcsulik, Péter ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bulimia; Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy; Eating binge; Gastric dilation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA INJURY; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BLEEDING; BULIMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROTOMY; HUMAN; INFARCTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LAPAROTOMY; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MESENTERIC VEIN; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETROPERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH INFARCTION; VEIN INJURY; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BULIMIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTRIC DILATATION; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750295522     PISSN: 02763478     EISSN: 1098108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eat.20281     Document Type: Article

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