Death due to munchausen syndrome: a case of idiopathic recurrent right ventricular failure and a review of the literature

Psychosomatics. 2014 Nov-Dec;55(6):668-72. doi: 10.1016/j.psym.2014.05.013. Epub 2014 Jun 2.

Authors

Muthiah Vaduganathan¹, Stephen A McCullough², Traci N Fraser², Theodore A Stern³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: muthu@md.northwestern.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

PMID: 25262044
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2014.05.013

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Embolism, Air / diagnosis
Embolism, Air / etiology
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Munchausen Syndrome / diagnosis*
Self-Injurious Behavior / complications*
Self-Injurious Behavior / diagnosis
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / etiology*