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A Case of Munchausen Syndrome Presenting with Hematemesis: A Case Report

Munchausen syndrome (MS) was first reported in 1951 by Richard Alan John Asher as a factitious disorder. It is a condition in which the patient intentionally produces symptoms to assume a sick role and gain medical attention. Underdiagnosis of this disorder results in the unnecessary use of medical...

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Autores principales: Aadil, Muhammad, Faraz, Aniqa, Anwar, Muhammad Jahanzaib, Shoaib, Maria, Nasir, Usama, Akhlaq, Anum
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28979830
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1348
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author Aadil, Muhammad
Faraz, Aniqa
Anwar, Muhammad Jahanzaib
Shoaib, Maria
Nasir, Usama
Akhlaq, Anum
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description Munchausen syndrome (MS) was first reported in 1951 by Richard Alan John Asher as a factitious disorder. It is a condition in which the patient intentionally produces symptoms to assume a sick role and gain medical attention. Underdiagnosis of this disorder results in the unnecessary use of medical resources, i.e. unnecessary medical tests and evaluations. This makes it one of the most challenging diagnosis in any medical set up. We present this rare case of a patient with chronic factitious disorder who presented to the emergency with hematemesis. The patient was successfully treated with psychotherapy with no recurrence. It is the need of the hour to create awareness amongst the medical and nonmedical population about factitious disorders so that they can easily be diagnosed and treated with efficiency. Further research is needed to find the risks leading to this syndrome and discover the cultural and social aspects of this disease, which may help us explore treatment strategies and avoid unnecessary tests and treatment.​
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spelling pubmed-56261702017-10-04 A Case of Munchausen Syndrome Presenting with Hematemesis: A Case Report Aadil, Muhammad Faraz, Aniqa Anwar, Muhammad Jahanzaib Shoaib, Maria Nasir, Usama Akhlaq, Anum Cureus Public Health Munchausen syndrome (MS) was first reported in 1951 by Richard Alan John Asher as a factitious disorder. It is a condition in which the patient intentionally produces symptoms to assume a sick role and gain medical attention. Underdiagnosis of this disorder results in the unnecessary use of medical resources, i.e. unnecessary medical tests and evaluations. This makes it one of the most challenging diagnosis in any medical set up. We present this rare case of a patient with chronic factitious disorder who presented to the emergency with hematemesis. The patient was successfully treated with psychotherapy with no recurrence. It is the need of the hour to create awareness amongst the medical and nonmedical population about factitious disorders so that they can easily be diagnosed and treated with efficiency. Further research is needed to find the risks leading to this syndrome and discover the cultural and social aspects of this disease, which may help us explore treatment strategies and avoid unnecessary tests and treatment.​ Cureus 2017-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5626170/ /pubmed/28979830 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1348 Text en Copyright © 2017, Aadil et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Akhlaq, Anum
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28979830
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1348
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