Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Pivot Concepts:
Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Target Concepts:
Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Query: UMLS:C0024523 (
malabsorption
)
7,319
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Symptoms fabricated by the mother, and abnormal maternal pressurising of medical staff, resulted in misinterpretation of sweat test results and a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in a two year old child. Her mother refused to accept later medical evidence which irrefutably showed this diagnosis to be wrong. The child was extensively investigated and for most of her childhood was treated for pancreatic
malabsorption
. She progressed from an innocent child victim of
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
abuse to an accomplice in her mother's deception, and finally to adult Munchausen Syndrome behaviour.
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
abuse may programme a child into developing adult Munchausen Syndrome.
...
PMID:Munchausen syndrome by proxy abuse: a foundation for adult Munchausen syndrome. 857 56
