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<Articles JournalTitle="Case Reports in Clinical Practice">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Case Reports in Clinical Practice</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2538-2683</Issn>
      <Volume>2</Volume>
      <Issue>2</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2017</Year>
        <Month>10</Month>
        <Day>10</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Intelligent Diagnosis, Unexpected Complication in a Munchausen Case of Warfarin Abuse</title>
    <FirstPage>50</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>54</LastPage>
    <Language>EN</Language>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Morteza</FirstName>
        <LastName>Daraie</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Seyed Farshad</FirstName>
        <LastName>Allameh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mahsa</FirstName>
        <LastName>Abbaszadeh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2017</Year>
        <Month>07</Month>
        <Day>14</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2017</Year>
        <Month>08</Month>
        <Day>26</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">A 25-year-old man with 10 years history of a migraine headache noticed&#xA0;ecchymotic lesions involving anterior chest wall, both upper and lower&#xA0;limbs that were unrelated to trauma. His laboratory data revealed&#xA0;prothrombin time (PT) 32 seconds, partial thromboplastin time (PTT)&#xA0;44 seconds, international normalized ratio 6, and normal bleeding time.&#xA0;Mixing study was performed and normalized PT to 13 seconds and PTT to&#xA0;38 seconds. Factor activity assay revealed a low level of Factors II, VII, IX,&#xA0;and X but normal level of Factor V. Factitious disorders were in high&#xA0;priority in our differential diagnosis. Thus, we evaluated serum warfarin&#xA0;level which was positive. There were no doubts that we encountered&#xA0;Munchausen case that abused warfarin compounds. We decided to use&#xA0;factor eight inhibitor bypassing activity for rapid correction of coagulation&#xA0;disorder. He suddenly complained of chest pain and dyspnea. We&#xA0;encountered to pulmonary embolism.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/view/126</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/download/126/77</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
