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Revision as of 05:26, 29 March 2012
Starvation is due to lack of food, inability or lack of desire to eat.
General
Causes of starvation:
- Psychiatric:
- Dementia.
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Disorder with delusions, e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder - belief one is being poisoned.
- Organic disease:
- Malignancy, e.g. esophageal carcinoma.
- Causes of malabsorption.
- Vomiting.
- Other:
- Poverty.
- Young age (cannot feed themself).
- Disability/trauma - person falls and cannot get up, help not available.
Associations - serous fat atrophy:[1]
- Acute febrile states.
- AIDS.
- Alcoholism.
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Cachexia.
- Carcinomas.
- Chronic heart failure.
- Lymphoma.
Gross
Microscopic
Features:
- Globular cells 3-4x a RBC with:
- Clear cytoplasm.
- One small peripheral nucleus.
DDx:
Images:
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Munfus DL, Menke DM (July 2009). "Case of severe serous fat atrophy". Mayo Clin. Proc. 84 (7): 570. doi:10.4065/84.7.570. PMC 2704126. PMID 19567708. http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/84/7/570.full.
- ↑ Clarke, BE.; Brown, DJ.; Xipell, JM. (Jan 1983). "Gelatinous transformation of the bone marrow.". Pathology 15 (1): 85-8. PMID 6222282.