Introduction It is well known that eating disorders are related to comorbidity. At least, half of these patients have other mental and, in addition it, the presence physical comorbidity (cardiovascular, kidney, nervous system, digestive tract, metabolic or endocrine disorders) comes with a decline life expectancy. Objectives Description patient diagnosis anorexia nervosa (AN) who developed gast...

To cite: Meshikhes A-WN, Al-Dolah Q. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013201296 DESCRIPTION A 35-year-old mentally retarded man was admitted with a 3-day history of epigastric pain, vomiting and feeling of fullness. Clinically, he was pale, but was not in distress and his vital signs were normal. Abdominal examination revealed deep tenderness and a...

There are many therapeutic modalities for managing gastric bezoars. These include nasogastric lavage or suction, enzymatic therapy, the use of prokinetic agents and gastroscopic fragmentation and extraction (1-3). If these non-operative treatments fail, a surgical approach is needed and removal of the bezoar has classically been performed by gastrotomy. To our knowledge there are few articles a...

Gastrointestinal (GI) bezoars are aggregates of indigestible material that occur mainly inpatientswith alteredGI anatomy (i.e. bariatric surgery, partial gastrectomy) and/or motility disorders (i. e. gastroparesis, drug-induced delayed gastric emptying). Other risk factors are high fiber intake, psychiatric diseases, and severe constipation [1]. Treatment strategies for bezoar fragmentation inc...

Bezoars are collections or concretions of indigestible foreign material in the gastrointestinal tract. Trichotillomania is an impetuous disorder of pulling out one’s own hair, whereas trichobezoar is the formation of a hairball after trichophagia [1], which contains a large quantity of hair, varying in length, matted together. A 13-year-old patient presented with abdominal pain beginning 1 mont...