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- Title
Bulas y neumotórax espontáneo en anorexia nerviosa.
- Authors
PEÑA, DIANA MARCELA; RODRÍGUEZ, JORGE; VILLALOBOS, WALTER
- Abstract
Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental disorder that primarily affects young women, having poor prognosis and high mortality, which reaches 25%. Endocrine, metabolic, immunologic and hematologic medical complications are among the most frequently mentioned in the literature. Pulmonary complications are rare and there is little evidence published. In this article, a case of pulmonary bullae and tension pneumothorax in a patient with anorexia nervosa is described, and a brief discussion on the possible pathophysiology when compared to the few published similar cases is made.
- Publication
Acta Medica Colombiana, 2014, Vol 39, Issue 3, p288
- ISSN
0120-2448
- Publication type
Article