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Munchausen's stridor: non‐organic laryngeal obstruction
Author(s) -
PATTERSON ROY,
SCHATZ MICHAEL,
HORTON MARK
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
clinical and experimental allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1365-2222
pISSN - 0954-7894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1974.tb01390.x
Subject(s) - stridor , medicine , airway obstruction , etiology , croup , rehabilitation , laryngeal diseases , intensive care medicine , airway , pediatrics , larynx , anesthesia , surgery , physical therapy
Summary A patient had at least 15 hospital admissions for symptoms of acute dyspnoea accompanied by loud stridorous sounds. These episodes had been diagnosed as acute airway obstruction and she was treated on all occasions on an emergency basis. In the absence of a definitive etiology and with other clues, it was then recognized that the patient was imitating the clinical appearance of laryngeal obstruction. Following the establishment of this, psychiatric care was initiated with the goal of rehabilitation of the patient, and there have been no further episodes to the present time.