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Munchausen syndrome with factitious hypoglycemia due to deliberate insulin analog administration and factitious hyperglycemia in a patient with hypothyroidism.

Marina Yu YukinaIlana KatsobashviliNadezhda PlatonovaEkaterina TroshinaGalina Mel'nichenko
Published in: Clinical diabetes and endocrinology (2022)
This clinical example illustrates to draw attention to multiple manipulations employed by subjects with Munchhausen Syndrome. In addition, this diagnosis may be further complicated by the laboratory use of immunoassay kits incapable of detecting some insulin analogs.
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