1. An adolescent with anorexia nervosa presenting with catatonia.
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Solanki, Ram Kumar, Khanna, Shashi Kant, Solanki, Gunjan, Yadav, Kuldeep Singh, Agarwal, Rishika, and Goyal, Manish Kumar
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ANOREXIA nervosa treatment , *ANOREXIA nervosa , *CATATONIA , *GALLBLADDER diseases , *KETONES , *LORAZEPAM , *LUTEINIZING hormone , *MEDICAL screening , *MUTISM , *PARENTERAL feeding , *VITAMIN D , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors , *TREATMENT effectiveness , *SEVERITY of illness index , *DISEASE complications , *ADOLESCENCE - Abstract
In the article, the authors present a case of a 16-year-old Hindu rural woman of middle socioeconomic status who was rushed to a clinic due to complaint of mutism to discuss the condition called anorexia nervosa with catatonia. Also cited are the symptoms of anorexia nervosa like very low body weight, disturbed body perception and intense fear of weight gain, and her prescription of lorazepam with significant improvement on her condition.
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- 2021
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