Anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder in a prepubertal patient with bone dysplasia: a case report

Int J Eat Disord. 2005 Apr;37(3):275-7. doi: 10.1002/eat.20136.

Abstract

Objective: The current article describes the case of a 13-year-old girl with body dysplasia, anorexia nervosa, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Method: She was given cognitive-behavioral therapy and pharmacologic treatment for the obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and exogenous growth hormone to increase her height.

Results: She experienced an adequate weight and height increase and remission of obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, and reestablished adequate social and academic functioning.

Conclusion: After a follow-up of almost 2 years, she had had her menarche, continued her positive eating habits, and had not relapsed into OCD.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia Nervosa / complications*
  • Anorexia Nervosa / psychology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / complications*
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / psychology
  • Osteochondrodysplasias / psychology*