Anorexia Nervosa with Recurrent Hypoglycemic Coma and Cerebral Hemorrhage

Abstract

A 22-year-old woman with anorexia nervosa showed recurrent hypoglycemic coma and cerebral hemorrhage (Weber's syndrome). She also showed marked liver dysfunction. However, the liver damage was unlikely the main cause of these complications, because liver function tests were improved, and platelet count and prothrombin time were normal when cerebral bleeding occurred. These complications could be induced by her severe malnutrition. Although she rejected any nutritional support before cerebral hemorrhage, she began to accept glucose infusion after the episode, and psychiatric and nutritional states were apparently improved. Cerebral hemorrhage was a turning point in her disease.
(Internal Medicine 35: 560-563, 1996)