Death Due to Munchausen Syndrome: A Case of Idiopathic Recurrent Right Ventricular Failure and a Review of the Literature

Psychosomatics

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 668-672

  Vaduganathan, Muthiah ^a   McCullough, Stephen A ^a   Fraser, Traci N ^a   Stern, Theodore A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAVULANIC ACID; MILRINONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC RECURRENT RIGHT VENTRICULAR FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUPUS VULGARIS; MALABSORPTION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; NURSE PRACTITIONER; POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC MASTOCYTOSIS; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; COMPLICATION; EMBOLISM, AIR; FATALITY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; EMBOLISM, AIR; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84926390746     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2014.05.013     Document Type: Article

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