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[Munchausen sydrome presenting repeated attacks of factitious status epilepticus (case report)]
Abstract:
A 27-year-old male patient with Munchausen syndrome presenting repeated pseudoseizures simulating grand mal status, is presented. Over a ten-year period there were more than hundred admissions to neurologic of psychiatric wards for suspected diagnosis of uncontrolled epilepsy. On many occasions the patient was admitted to the hospital under dramatic conditions of psychogenic seizures similar to grand mal status that initially demanted intensive antiepileptic treatment, in order to prove its pseudoepileptic nature. On the basis of his past history, our observation, and information obtained from other regional hospitals, we diagnosed epileptic Munchausen syndrome.
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