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[Anorexia nervosa and pregnancy]
S Brugère1, D Dallay, J Horovitz
1Service d'Endocrinologie, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, Pessac.
Abstract:
We report the case of a pregnancy associated with severe anorexia nervosa. The patient weighed 33 kg for 1 m 51 at conception. The pregnancy was obtained during a spontaneous cycle. Despite nutritional and psychological case, the patient continued to lose weight and weighed only 28 kgs at 33 weeks of amenorrhea, when she gave birth to a hypotrophic child of 1130 gr after artificial starting. The case provides discussion of the relation ship between anorexia nervosa and pregnancy.