Hypoglycemic coma in a patient with anorexia nervosa coincident with acute exacerbation of liver injury induced by oral intake of nutrients

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1553-1556

  Sakurai Chin, Chanhyok ^a   Ito, Nobuaki ^a   Taguchi, Manabu ^a,b   Miyakawa, Megumi ^a,b   Takeshita, Akira ^a,b   Takeuchi, Yasuhiro ^a,b  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Hypoglycemia; Liver injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMENORRHEA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY IMAGE; CASE REPORT; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIC COMA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LETHARGY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; COMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

EID: 77956200412     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3373     Document Type: Article

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