[Life-threatening theophylline intoxication: a variant of Munchhausen syndrome by proxy].

[When health care professionals become unwillingly involved in child abuse: the Munchhausen-by-proxy syndrome].

Reports on seemingly caring mothers, who at the same time fabricate or provoke clinical symptoms in their children and subsequently expose them to potentially harmful medical procedures, are hardly believable at first sight. Nevertheless the steadily growing number of reports on this kind of child abuse, known as Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome, points to a significant number of undetected cases. ...

Attachment representations in mothers with abnormal illness behaviour by proxy.

BACKGROUND Abnormal illness behaviour by proxy (also known as factitious illness by proxy or Munchhausen syndrome by proxy) is a type of child maltreatment, the origins of which are poorly understood. AIMS To describe attachment representations in a cohort of mothers demonstrating abnormal illness behaviour by proxy. METHOD Sixty-seven mothers who had shown this behaviour took part in a sem...

A case of Brugada Syndrome unmasked by a postoperative febrile state

Abstract Background: Brugada Syndrome (BS) is an inherited ion channelopathy characterized by an electrocardiographic (ECG) pattern of a coved type ST segment elevation in right precordial leads with or without right bundle branch block. Case Presentation: A 23-year old male presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain. Further evaluation revealed a diagnosis of acute appendicitis. The ...

[Munchausen syndrome by proxy and presumed apparent life-threatening event manifestations].

A Case Series of Life-Threatening MDMA Poisoning in An Electronic Dance Music Party in Hong Kong

Background: MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), which is also known as Ecstasy or Molly, is a commonly found abusive agent in Hong Kong. MDMA abuse is widely reported in electronic dance music (EDM) festivals all over the world. It brings about uncommon mortality and serious morbidity with recreational use, which are believed to be related to serotonin toxicity. Cyproheptadine has anti-hi...