2016-09-26T17-14-53Z
Source: Turkish Journal of Family Medicine & Primary Care
Ebru Altıntaş, Akatlı Kürşad Özşahin.
Munchausen Syndrome defined by Asher in 1951 is named after fictitious Baron Karl Friedrich Von Munchausen.This syndrome is characterized by constituting diseases, pathological lying, and visiting healt care units many times with many hospitalizations. These patients seek attention of health workers pretending to be sick when in fact they are not. They try to obtain the care and intimacy which they dont have in daily life from health professionals. They can have the support of physicians because they generally have medical information to a degree to define symptoms. Their medical history is generally full of hard to believe tales. The presented case was a 27 year old female with three kids. She attended the outpatient clinic with complaint of hemoptysis, but investigations proved that she created the condition herself with ordinary paint. The etiology of this syndrome which is not fully understood as well as strategies for differential dignosis is discussed and highlights for management of such patients are underlined in the article
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Δευτέρα 26 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016
MUNCHAUSEN HEMOPTYSİS : A Rare Type of Factitious Disorder
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