Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t8hqh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T02:26:32.835Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Anorexia Nervosa in a Patient with XY Gonadal Dysgenesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sara E. McCluskey  and
J. Hubert Lacey
Sara E. McCluskey
Affiliation:
Department of Adult Psychiatry, St George's Hospital Medical School
J. Hubert Lacey*
Affiliation:
Department of Adult Psychiatry, St George's Hospital Medical School, Tooting, London SW17 0RE
*
∗Correspondence
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This is the first report of a case of anorexia nervosa in a woman with XY gonadal dysgenesis. Anorexia nervosa is a potential complication of gonadal dysgenesis, stemming not only from the disorder itself but from its investigation and treatment.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 160 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 114 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

American Psychiatric Association (1987) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (3rd edn, revised) (DSM–III–R). Washington, DC: APA.Google Scholar
Brinch, M. & Manthorpe, T. (1987) Short stature as a possible etiological factor in anorexia nervosa. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 76, 328–332.Google Scholar
Brook, C. (1986) Turner syndrome. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 61, 305–309.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Darby, P., Garfinkel, P., Vale, J., et al (1981) Anorexia nervosa and “Turner syndrome”, cause or coincidence? Psychological Medicine, 11, 141–145.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dougherty, G., Rockwel, W., Sutton, G., et al (1983) Anorexia nervosa in treated gonadal dysgenesis. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 44, 219–221.Google Scholar
Halmi, K. & DeBault, L. (1974) Gonosomol aneuploidy in anorexia nervosa. American Journal Human Genetics, 26, 195–198.Google Scholar
Kauli, R., Gurewitz, R., Galazer, A., et al (1982) Effect of gonadotrophin excretion in a patient with gonadal dysgenesis. Acta Endocrinologica, 100, 363–368.Google Scholar
Kihlbom, M. (1969) Psychopathology of Turner's syndrome. Acta Paedopsychiatrica, 36, 75–81.Google Scholar
Kron, L., Katz, J., Gorzynski, G., et al (1977) Anorexia and gonadal dysgenesis. Archives General Psychiatry, 4, 332–335.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nielsen, J. (1989) What more can be done for girls and women with Turner syndrome and their parents? Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica, 356 (suppl.), 93–100.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ohzeki, T., Igarashi, Y., Egi, S., et al (1988) Turner syndrome with anorexia nervosa. American Journal of Medicine, 84, 792–793.Google Scholar
Pitts, F. & Guze, S. (1965) Anorexia nervosa and gonadal dysgenesis (Turner syndrome). American Journal of Psychiatry, 119, 1100–1102.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.