bulimia nervosa/asthenia

Two adolescent patients with eating disorders and severe weight loss presented with neuromyopathy. The first was female and had a twenty months' history of bulimia nervosa with weight loss and episodic gorging and vomiting. The second was male with a two-year history of anorexia nervosa

A 14-year-old girl with a history of nonpurging bulimia nervosa (BN) was presented with muscular pain and weakness after several days of fasting and vigorous exercise. On hospital admission, the serum creatine kinase was 3,277 U/L and serum potassium was 2.5 mmol/L. The creatine kinase level reached

A 16-year-old female presented with weakness that began about 2 weeks earlier and has become progressively worse. It was accompanied by occasional dizziness and two brief episodes of syncope. Her history was remarkable for self-induced vomiting in order to lose weight. Her obvious diagnosis was

Bulimia nervosa represents a serious public health problem in the United States. We performed an 8-week, double-blind trial comparing fluoxetine hydrochloride (60 and 20 mg/d) with placebo in 387 bulimic women treated on an outpatient basis. Fluoxetine at 60 mg/d proved superior to placebo in

The objective was to propose and describe a new bio-psycho-social model of emergence and maintenance of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and demonstrate its application to treatment. An original model, based on literature review and our own clinical experience, was created. Therapeutic

Theoretical frameworks have guided approaches to treatment for the eating disorders. While unitary models were characteristic of earlier eras, more recent formulations have attempted to improve understanding by integrating various schools of thought (1). Several of these have placed cultural factors

In this article, the authors deal with clinical and psycho-social aspects as well as treatment measures for nervous bulimia, overeating attacks and obesity. By studying these disorders, we have been able to notice the existence of common psycho-pathological characteristics. Impulsive behavior, more

The present study constitutes a brief literature overview, in which the term of clinical perfectionism, its etiopathology, its assessment and its relation to psychopathology, as well as the therapeutic interventions based on the Cognitive Behavioral Model are discussed. According to Frost,

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate the adequacy of a general interview schedule for the purpose of assessing bulimia nervosa. METHODS In two waves of data collection 18-24 months apart, 250 women were assessed for disordered eating. The first interview was typical of that included in

Self-starvation as well as binge eating appears to be far more complex than the uniformity of eating disorders clinical features let us predict. One reason is that these "body-centred" behaviours generate severe biological effects, the complications playing a great part in the recovery process.