Hypoglycemia secondary to factitious hyperinsulinism in a foster care adolescent - a case report of munchausen syndrome in a community hospital emergency department setting

BACKGROUND: Factitious disorder causing hypoglycemia is a psychiatric condition in which patients deliberately use blood sugar lowering medications to cause severe symptoms for the purposes of hospitalization or other primary gains. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of factitious hypoglycemia in a...

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Autores principales: Patel, Ashruta, Daniels, Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30537938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-018-0208-z

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