Anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder in a prepubertal patient with bone dysplasia: a case report.
OBJECTIVE
The current article describes the case of a 13-year-old girl with body dysplasia, anorexia nervosa, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).


METHODS
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.


CONCLUSIONS
After a follow-up of almost 2 years, she had had her menarche, continued her positive eating habits, and had not relapsed into OCD.
Lázaro
Luisa
L
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry and Psychology, Hospital Clínic Universitari of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. llazaro@clinic.ub.es
Moreno
Elena
E
Baos
Pilar
P
Castro
Josefina
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D010009:Osteochondrodysplasias / Q000523:psychology*