Factitious hypercalcaemia.

Hypercalcaemia.

tivity, and cardiovascular risk factors in hypopituitary adults. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1995;80:153–9. 12 Bulow B, Hagmar L, Mikoczy Z, Nordstrom CH, Erfurth EM. Increased cerebrovascular mortality in patients with hypopituitarism. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 1997;46:75–81. 13 Fowelin J, Attrall S, Lager I, Bengtsson BA. Effects of treatment with recombinant human growth hormone on insulin sensitivi...

Factitious Urticaria

sensitive as to resent the slightest irritation, appears, perhaps, more surprising than that the gastric mucous membrane should occasionally be subject to intense excitement at the presence of various articles of food. We seem to expect the skin to resist pressure and irritation as one of its functions, and are therefore surprised when the phenomena of factitious urticaria occur. There is no do...

Factitious disorder in adolescence.

Factitious disorder (FD) is defined as a condition in which a person voluntarily produces symptoms or illness and acts as if they are ill without an external gain (1). In the Psychiatric Disorders Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), it is divided into three types as “Factitious disorders with predominantly psychological signs and symptoms”, “Factitious disorders with...

Malingering and Factitious Disorders

Disappearing hypercalcaemia.

Four women presented with symptomatic hypercalcaemia and raised concentrations of serum parathyroid hormone (PTH). In each case, serum calcium returned spontaneously to normal. In two patients serum PTH also fell to the normal range and biochemical relapse has not occurred despite prolonged follow-up. In the others, serum PTH remained elevated and subsequent symptomatic hypercalcaemia necessita...