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52-year-old man with recurrent urinary tract infection, Munchausen's syndrome
Varón de 52 años con infecciones de orina de repetición: síndrome de Munchausen
Sabina Herrera
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, Patricia Corzo, Ruperto-Carlos Oliverò, Ana Zabalza, Roberto Carlos Güerri-Fernández
Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
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presence of illness behaviour reflecting a wish to assume the sick role&#44; confronting physicians with self-induced symptoms or disease and absence of external incentives &#40;e&#46;g&#46;&#44; economic gain&#44; avoiding legal responsibility&#44; etc&#46;&#41;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">These criteria define an extremely heterogeneous population with coexisting medical and psychiatric disorders and usually seen by non-psychiatrics&#46; Therefore it is under-recognized and under-appreciated&#44; leading to unnecessary morbidity and mortality&#44; and tremendous cost to healthcare systems&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#8211;7</span></a></p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">To illustrate the difficulties at arrive to a proper diagnosis we report a rare case of a man who visited repeatedly different hospitals with recurrent abdominal pain&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A 52-year-old man presented to the emergency department with dysuria&#44; urgency&#44; dark urine&#44; right low-back and flank pain and an isolated temperature determination of 38&#46;2<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#176;<span class="elsevierStyleSmallCaps">C</span>&#44; with no other symptoms&#46; When asked&#44; the patient denied previous visits to other hospitals&#44; despite we being able to see his past medical history&#46; However&#44; electronic records showed a previous admission at our centre in 2003 due to renal colic&#44; without any evidence of urolithiasis that derived by the placement of a pigtail catheter due to persistence of pain&#46; He was again admitted in 2012 due to chronic prostatitis by extended-spectrum beta-lactamases producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and pyelonephritis by Streptococcus viridians&#44; receiving broad-spectrum antibiotics&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">When going through his electronic medical records &#40;due to hospital sharing of medical records&#41;&#44; it was found that in the last 4 years&#44; he had visited several emergency departments 103 times and had been hospitalized 10 times&#44; due to recurrent abdominal pain and urinary tract infection&#46; At these centres&#44; multiple tests were run&#44; including&#44; ultrasounds&#44; abdominal scans&#44; MRI&#44; barium enemas&#44; urine cytologies&#44; bone scintigraphy&#44; and even a laparoscopic exploration&#59; all of them without any alterations&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At the ED he impressed of severe pain&#44; afebrile&#46; He had painful abdominal examination in the right iliac fossa and right flank with right positive lumbar percussion&#46; He had urinary analysis with 20&#8211;50 leukocytes&#47;field and many bacteriae&#46; Blood tests and abdominal ultrasound were normal&#46; Broad-spectrum antibiotics were started and the patient was admitted with the diagnosis of pyelonephritis&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Past urinary cultures were reviewed from former visits to the emergency department&#44; finding <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Streptococcus viridans</span> in most of them or contamination&#46; The patient denied having been hospitalised in other hospitals&#46; Psychiatric disorder was then suspected&#46; To check&#44; urinalysis was requested without notice to the patient obtaining a normal result &#40;no leucocyte&#44; no bacteria&#41;&#46; The day after the patient was asked for another urine sample that he provided&#44; with pathological result &#40;haematuria&#44; pyuria&#41;&#46; In this sample amylasuria was determined &#40;under the suspicion that the patient may be spitting on the urine to alter the results&#41; with a result 10&#44;433<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>IU&#47;l &#40;normal range 0&#8211;460<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>UI&#47;l&#41;&#44; and normal amylasemia&#46; A third urine sample subsequently collected under the supervision of a nurse showed no pathological outcome and amylasuria within normality&#44; thus proving the patient was deliberately contaminating the urine samples&#46; Antibiotic treatment was withdrawn and assessed by psychiatry&#44; which determined factitious disorder without psychotic clinic&#59; he was discharged with outpatient psychiatric follow-up&#46; Since he was discharged the patient has visited several emergency departments with the same symptoms&#44; and has not attended the psychiatric visits&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The repeated history of abdominal pain&#44; without any findings in the multiple tests that had been run in several hospitals&#44; and the fact that the patient denied previous hospitalizations&#44; led us to suspect Munchausen&#39;s syndrome&#46; The use of shared electronic medical records was of extreme importance in order to suspect the patient&#39;s illness&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The prevalence of Munchausen&#39;s syndrome is difficult to ascertain and is likely to be underreported&#46; Further diagnostic procedures and treatment interventions can also cause more morbidity or mortality&#44; by the intervention itself&#44; i&#46;e&#46;&#44; our patient underwent a surgery&#44; had placed a pig-tail catheter&#44; received high doses of radiation due to repeated CT-scans &#40;at least 11&#41; and had high resistant microorganism flora due to repeated intake of broad spectrum antibiotics&#44; or through the patient&#39;s contribution&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In cases of factitious disorder with physical symptoms confrontation has been criticized mainly because it has been done aggressively&#44; causing the rejection of any type of patient psychiatric treatment&#46; The non-punitive confrontation&#44; which reformulates the disorder as a request for help&#44; promotes patient adherence to psychiatric treatment&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> Treatment of Munchausen&#39;s syndrome should focus on the underlying motivations&#46; Unfortunately most patients refuse psychiatric help and leave hospital even before correct diagnosis is made&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a></p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We should therefore suspect this disorder in patients with recurrent urinary tract infection&#44; 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