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Psychosomatic Medicine 33:135-144 (1971)
© 1971 American Psychosomatic Society

Death in Anorexia Nervosa

HILDE BRUCH MD1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Tex.; Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.

Hilde Bruch, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Tex 77025

Four cases of anorexia nervosa with fatal outcome are reported in this study. Only one death was related to severe inanition; in two instances, no satisfactory cause of death was found on autopsy. The fourth patient died from the effects of general calcinosis (Vitamin D poisoning), with cardiac and renal failure. There was nothing in the initial picture which suggested that these patients suffered from a more malignant form of anorexia nervosa than is generally seen by psychiatrists.

Submitted on October 16, 1970




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