Fabricated or induced illness in twins associated with insertion of trocar needles into their bodies
Autor: | Fatma Fitouri, Mourad Hamzaoui, Yasmine Houas |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Child abuse
medicine.medical_specialty Second twin business.industry Twins Autopsy Acute respiratory distress Sudden infant death syndrome Surgical Instruments medicine.disease Surgery Diaphragm (structural system) Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy 03 medical and health sciences Fatal Outcome 0302 clinical medicine 030225 pediatrics Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Munchausen syndrome Fabricated or induced illness Needlestick Injuries business |
Zdroj: | Paediatrics and International Child Health. 39:227-229 |
ISSN: | 2046-9055 2046-9047 |
DOI: | 10.1080/20469047.2018.1466482 |
Popis: | Fabricated and/or induced illness (previously known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy) is a form of child abuse in which the perpetrator induces, exaggerates or fabricates illness in his/her child. Two-month-old twins were referred to the paediatric surgery centre with trocar needles lodged in different organs. A radiograph undertaken in one of them because of acute respiratory distress demonstrated needles in the heart and diaphragm which were removed surgically. The second twin, referred one week after his brother, had a needle deep in his liver and it was decided not to operate owing to the possibility of haemorrhage but, sadly, he died unexpectedly and the autopsy concluded that it was owing to sudden infant death syndrome. Because of a number of admissions to different units in the same hospital, there was a delay in the eventual diagnosis. Recurrent admissions to different hospital units should raise the suspicion of fabricated and/or induced illness. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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