Electrolyte and fluid shifts after nutrition is restored in starvation.
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Subspecialty
- Psychiatry / Eating disorders
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, female predominance in anorexia; Children: yes
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Refeeding syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Insulin surge driving phosphate, potassium and magnesium into cells.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (8)
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Shares symptoms with
3 shared
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hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, seizures
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delirium, seizures
2 shared
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hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia
2 shared
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edema, seizures
2 shared
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hypophosphatemia, seizures
2 shared
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arrhythmia, seizures
1 shared
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seizures
1 shared
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seizures
1 shared
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seizures
1 shared
Anomalous left coronary artery from pulmonary artery
heart failure
Shares genes with
None.
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