TY - JOUR
T1 - Three cases of appendicitis with anorexia nervosa under inpatient care
AU - Takakura, Shu
AU - Yokoyama, Hiroaki
AU - Suzuyama, Chie
AU - Tatsushima, Keita
AU - Yamashita, Makoto
AU - Gondou, Motoharu
AU - Morita, Chihiro
AU - Hata, Tomokazu
AU - Takii, Masato
AU - Kawai, Keisuke
AU - Sudo, Nobuyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors would like to thank the members of the Department of Surgery and Oncology and the Department of Surgery and Science of Kyushu University Hospital for successful operation of the patients. This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15 K08920.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Takakura et al.
PY - 2015/11/6
Y1 - 2015/11/6
N2 - Background: Little is known about the occurrence of appendicitis during the re-nourishment period in anorexia nervosa (AN). We report three cases of appendicitis in patients with AN that occurred after hospitalization for treatment of AN. Case presentation: Case 1 is a 34-year-old female, case 2 is a 17-year-old female and case 3 is a 38-year-old female. Constipation was observed in all three cases. Careful management of defecation might be essential to prevent appendicitis among AN patients during the re-nourishment period under inpatient care. In addition, mild and diffuse symptoms were observed in all three cases. Therefore, diagnosis proved to be difficult to make and abdominal computed tomography was particularly helpful in all cases. As the symptoms were diffuse, the condition of appendicitis turned out to be more severe and complicated in one case. Additionally, the incidence of appendicitis in AN in the current study might be higher than that in the normal population. Conclusions: These findings suggest that appendicitis should be considered as one of the potentially important complications in the therapy for AN.
AB - Background: Little is known about the occurrence of appendicitis during the re-nourishment period in anorexia nervosa (AN). We report three cases of appendicitis in patients with AN that occurred after hospitalization for treatment of AN. Case presentation: Case 1 is a 34-year-old female, case 2 is a 17-year-old female and case 3 is a 38-year-old female. Constipation was observed in all three cases. Careful management of defecation might be essential to prevent appendicitis among AN patients during the re-nourishment period under inpatient care. In addition, mild and diffuse symptoms were observed in all three cases. Therefore, diagnosis proved to be difficult to make and abdominal computed tomography was particularly helpful in all cases. As the symptoms were diffuse, the condition of appendicitis turned out to be more severe and complicated in one case. Additionally, the incidence of appendicitis in AN in the current study might be higher than that in the normal population. Conclusions: These findings suggest that appendicitis should be considered as one of the potentially important complications in the therapy for AN.
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U2 - 10.1186/s40337-015-0076-9
DO - 10.1186/s40337-015-0076-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006186518
VL - 3
JO - Journal of Eating Disorders
JF - Journal of Eating Disorders
SN - 2050-2974
IS - 1
M1 - 38
ER -
