Factitious proteinuria – the most dominant feature in a young female patient with Munchausen syndrome

About the estimation of albuminuria based on proteinuria results

“…In rare cases, the presence of Bence Jones proteinuria in the elderly may result in proteinuria results that cannot be reliably extrapolated to albumin results. Furthermore, factitious proteinuria caused by Munchausen syndrome may lead to erroneous albumin estimation [7].…”