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A 20-year-old female patient with anorexia nervosa was found to have considerable cerebellar atrophy as well as cerebral atrophy. Computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging both showed growth of the external cerebrospinal fluid spaces, particularly spaces near to the cerebellar cistern. Another investigation revealed reduced perfusion in the left brain. The neurological symptoms decreased with weight gain, but it is not possible to state that nutritional deficits caused the brain changes. The three conditions may all have been related to an unknown factor.
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The case of a girl with anorexia nervosa in whom an initial, clinically irrelevant pericardial effusion increased rapidly, making pericardiocentesis necessary to prevent cardiac tamponade is described. Percardiocentesis results made it possible to exclude the inflammatory or infectious nature of the pericardial fluid, although the pathogenesis of this cardiac alteration remained obscure.
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This article examines the relationship between pericardial effusion and anorexia nervosa. The authors, analzying medical cases, found a correlation between weight gain and reduction of pericardial effusion in anorexia nervosa and maintain one case demonstrated pericardial effusion remitted with weight gain.
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