BACKGROUND Factitious hypoglycemia is a deliberate attempt to induce a low serum glucose level using either insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents. Sulfonylurea-induced hypoglycemia is more common than incidents of insulin abuse, and hypoglycemia caused by these oral agents is biochemically indistinguishable from insulinoma. METHODS We describe a case of factitious hypoglycemia resulting from in...

Hyperkalaemia is a common electrolyte disorder with potentially lethal consequences and can lead to life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias. Spurious hyperkalaemia, also known as pseudohyperkalaemia or factitious hyperkalaemiais, is also quite common in clinical practice and it's a source of avoidable emergency department visits or hospital admissions. We report a case in which alarming hyperkala...

dermatitis artifacta is a factitious dermatological disorder with many forms of presentation of self inflicted skin lesions in any part of the body. dermatitis artefacta is a difficult condition for diagnosis and treatment mostly because of the patient's denial. the liaison among primary care physicians, psychiatrists and dermatologists can be important in the management of these patients. in t...

Fifteen families are described in which one or more child incurred factitious illness abuse as a result of the father’s false story and actions. The degree of direct physical harm, and the chance of death, was high in those families in which the father had Munchausen syndrome or marked somatising disorder. Eleven children died and another six survived repetitive smothering or poisoning. Althoug...

BACKGROUND Factitious disorder (FD) is the deliberate production or simulation of symptoms in order to adopt the sick role. OBJECTIVE The authors look at FD in the neurology setting. METHOD The authors examined documented, published cases. RESULTS FD cases in neurology are strikingly different from those in other specialties in terms of their demographics. Whereas the paradigm of FD in me...

In many mental health settings, there has been an increasingawareness that multiple personality disorder (MPD) is far from rare. However, along with this awareness has come an increased incidence of the misdiagnosis of IPD. The misdiagnosis of AIPJ) (i.e., false positive diagnosis of MIPD) has been seen in three forms: other dissociative disorders, non-dissociative disorders, and malingering er...

psychosomatic disorders may occasionally present in the upper extremity and their diagnosis and treatment may prove to be extremely difficult. herein, we describe one such patient and review the literature on this subject.