Abstract
As a retired German cavalry officer, Karl Friedrich Hieronymous Freiherr von (Baron) Munchausen (172097) acquired a reputation as a raconteur of preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier, hunter, and sportsman 1 . Asher in 1951 first reported patients who consistently produced false stories and fabricated medical evidence which led to needless medical investigations, operations and treatments 2 . Roy Meadow in 1977 described a condition, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, where the mother, a relative or a caregiver fabricated illnesses in children 3 . Since then, many reports of this condition have been published in the medical literature from allover the world.
Highlights
As a retired German cavalry officer, Karl Friedrich Hieronymous Freiherr von (Baron) Munchausen (1720- 97) acquired a reputation as a raconteur of preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier, hunter, and sportsman[1]
A 12 month old child was admitted to our unit with a history of intermittent fever and straining during micturition of one month duration
A urine full report and a urine culture were normal. She remained afebrile and two further urine cultures were negative. When she was about to be discharged from hospital, she developed frank haematuria, confirmed by microscopy
Summary
As a retired German cavalry officer, Karl Friedrich Hieronymous Freiherr von (Baron) Munchausen (1720- 97) acquired a reputation as a raconteur of preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier, hunter, and sportsman[1]. Asher in 1951 first reported patients who consistently produced false stories and fabricated medical evidence which led to needless medical investigations, operations and treatments[2]. Roy Meadow in 1977 described a condition, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, where the mother, a relative or a caregiver fabricated illnesses in children[3]. Many reports of this condition have been published in the medical literature from allover the world. We report a case where, as a result of the manipulations of a very convincing clinical profile of a renal disease by the mother, a 12 month old child was submitted to numerous investigations and procedures which had the potential to harm the child
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