نتایج جستجو برای: factitious disorder

تعداد نتایج: 597259  

Journal: :The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society : official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society 2011
Marc R Matrana Patrick F McDonald Emily Rostlund

The term Munchausen syndrome—named after the famed 18th century Baron Munchausen of Germany, whose wide travels and notorious tall tales have inspired literature pieces, several films, and even a popular game— was originally coined in 1951 by Dr. Richard Asher, a British endocrinologist and hematologist who used the term to refer to patients who feign illness.1 Today, most experts use it to des...

2017
Carlos André Minanni Ana Luiza De Almeida Cardoso Luciana Pinto Brito Ludmilla Malveira Lima Lopes Andrea Glezer Berenice Bilharinho De Mendonça Marcello Delano Bronstein Marcio Carlos Machado

Münchhausen’s syndrome (MS) is a chronic factitious disorder characterized by the intentional production of clinical symptoms without external incentive. One type of MS is factitious Cushing syndrome, an extremely rare clinical situation in which the diagnosis is challenging mainly due to interference of the exogenous medication in cortisol immunoassays. We described a 26-year-old woman who was...

Journal: :Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports 2021

2015
Carlos André Minanni Ana Luiza De Almeida Cardoso Edoarda Vasco de Albuquerque Albuquerque Luciana Pinto Brito Ludmilla Malveira Lima Lopes Andrea Glezer Elisa Del Rosario Ugarte Verduguez Berenice Bilharinho De Mendonça Marcello Delano Bronstein Marcio Carlos Machado Maria Candida Barisson Villares Fragoso

Münchhausen's syndrome (MS) is a chronic factitious disorder characterized by the intentional production of clinical symptoms without external incentive. One type of MS is factitious Cushing syndrome, an extremely rare clinical situation in which the diagnosis is challenging mainly due to interference of the exogenous medication in cortisol immunoassays. We described a 26-year-old woman who was...

2017
Robyn Thom Polina Teslyar Rohn Friedman

Psychiatrists commonly encounter deception in the emergency department. This article presents the case of a patient who presents to the emergency department with an unusual and elaborate web of deceptions along multiple themes including feigning medical illness, multiple losses, and grandiose academic and athletic achievements. We review the clinical characteristics of pseudologia fantastica an...

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