Female·complications of anorexia nervosa
Angela Parragi died from complications of anorexia nervosa at Canberra Hospital while under a Community Care Order. The coroner found no basis that the qual…
56y · Female·multi-organ failure due to anorexia nervosa
A 56-year-old woman with a long history of anorexia nervosa and a BMI of 10.3 died from multi-organ failure after admission to hospital. She was found on her…
49y · Female·Anorexia
Sonya Szala, 49, died from anorexia nervosa after suffering severe metabolic derangement and extreme emaciation. She became a recluse followi…
57y · Male·Pneumonia in a man with epilepsy secondary to childhood meningitis
…rom aspiration pneumonia. He was admitted to palliative care on 12 April 2012 for management of seizures, anorexia, and constipation. Despite previous discharge planning involving the Community Residential Unit and educa…
78y · Female·Complications of mandibular fractures sustained in a fall, in the setting of mal…
…tained in a fall at an aged care facility. She had long-standing schizoaffective disorder with associated anorexia, resulting in severe malnutrition (BMI 13.3) and osteoporosis at the time of death. She fell on 25 Septem…
31y · Female·organ failure due to anorexia nervosa
Chloe Tupper died of organ failure due to severe anorexia nervosa at age 31. She had suffered from this illness for 17 years since age 14, receiving multiple episo…
29y · Female·multi-lobe community acquired pneumonia and respiratory failure
Clare Louise Harrison, a 29-year-old woman with long-standing anorexia nervosa diagnosed at age 17, died from community-acquired pneumonia and respiratory failure after a final…
21y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained from being struck by a train; death by suicide while…
Alana Goldsmith, a 21-year-old woman with long-standing anorexia nervosa, died by suicide on 22 July 2011 after stepping in front of a train at Summer Hill Railway Statio…
14y · Male·Brain infarction caused by hypoxia following self-inflicted hanging by rope liga…
PT was a 14-year-old boy with a history of anorexia nervosa and bulimia who died by hanging in April 2022. He had been discharged from eating disorder treatm…
23y · Female·unascertained
Olivia Gilfillan, aged 23, died between 1–5 February 2018 after nine years of psychiatric treatment for anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and borderline personality disorder. Sh…
47y · Female·Traumatic closed head injury likely sustained in a fall from standing
TS, a 47-year-old woman with a 18-year history of anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and severe alcoholism, died from a traumatic closed head injury sustained in a fall fro…
Female·Fulminant hepatic failure due to paracetamol toxicity
A 19-year-old female with anorexia nervosa, borderline personality disorder, and chronic suicidality was admitted to St Vincent’s psychiatri…
51y · Female·Complications of anorexia nervosa
A 51-year-old woman with severe anorexia nervosa, BMI 12.1, was admitted to hospital acutely unwell with hypothermia, bradycardia, heart block, an…
15y · Female·Paracetamol toxicity in the setting of Anorexia Nervosa
Olivia Evans, 15, died from paracetamol toxicity in the setting of anorexia nervosa after intentionally overdosing. She had 38 inpatient admissions over two years with escalating fo…
75y · Male·metastatic pancreatic cancer
…025 and underwent palliative chemotherapy at Prince of Wales Hospital from March-April 2025. He developed anorexia, nausea, and diarrhoea after his second chemotherapy cycle, experienced clinical deterioration, and was t…
20y · Female·multi-organ failure due to polypharmacy overdose
A 20-year-old woman with depression and borderline personality disorder died from multi-organ failure following a large polypharmacy overdose (13 grams of paracetamol among 78 tablets). She was admitted to the ED where i…
69y · Male·neck compression due to hanging
GL, a 69-year-old Chinese national, died by hanging in Long Bay Correctional Centre's Medical Services Unit on 12 April 2022. He was incarcerated following the murder of his wife in September 2020 and had become a parapl…
28y · Female·aspiration of gastric contents complicating laxative abuse
…astric contents complicating severe laxative abuse. She fabricated a terminal cancer diagnosis to conceal anorexia nervosa and factitious disorder. During a RAH admission, a CT scan revealed dozens of tablets in her stom…
Sodium nitrite toxicity
…ronic medical conditions including emphysema and blindness, and his 32-year-old daughter with depression, anorexia, and substance abuse, died from sodium nitrite toxicity in their home. The daughter researched sodium nit…
20y · Female·injury caused by hanging
A 20-year-old woman with a long history of eating disorder, obsessive-compulsive behaviours, and adjustment difficulties died by suicide in October 2009. She had received treatment at the Bronte Centre in Melbourne and o…
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