title: Prolonged anorexia nervosa associated with female-to-male gender dysphoria: A case report.
abstract: Transsexual (TS) individuals seem to display an increased risk in having eating disorders. Several case reports describe TS individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN). In order to understand better the impact of gender dysphoria (GD) and hormonal/surgical treatments on the occurrence and course of eating disorders in TS patients long term follow-up studies are needed. We present here a 41-year-old female-to-male TS patient suffering from AN. History revealed that pathological eating habits could strongly be associated with her GD. Hormonal and surgical treatments resulted in substantial improvement in the given eating disorder. The impact of GD on the development and treatment of eating disorder is discussed in this report.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Şenol
authors.initials: Ş
authors.lastname: Turan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: canaaksoy@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Cana Aksoy
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Poyraz
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Alaattin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Duran
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018570:Risk Assessment; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: Eating disorder; Gender dysphoria; Transsexual