Yadav Tarun, Balhara Yatan Pal Singh, Kataria Dinesh Kumar
Department of Psychiatry and De-addiction, Lady Hardinge Medical College and SSK Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Psychol Med. 2012 Jan;34(1):82-4. doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.96167.
Pseudocyesis is a condition in which the patient has all signs and symptoms of pregnancy except for the confirmation of the presence of a fetus. The literature on delusions of pregnancy in schizophrenia is however scanty. We hereby present a case of delusion of pregnancy. The case highlights the possibility of delusion of pregnancy if a patient presents with features suggestive of pseudocyesis. The obstetricians being more familiar with pseudocyesis might tend to overlook the other possibility in such cases. This would be especially true if there are no associated clearcut psychotic features.
假孕是一种患者具备所有妊娠体征和症状，但未确认有胎儿存在的情况。然而，关于精神分裂症中妊娠妄想的文献却很匮乏。我们在此呈现一例妊娠妄想病例。该病例凸显了如果患者表现出提示假孕的特征时出现妊娠妄想的可能性。产科医生对假孕更为熟悉，在这类病例中可能会倾向于忽略其他可能性。如果没有相关明确的精神病性特征，情况尤其如此。
