Spurious Labour in Pseudocyesis

On a Case of Spurious Pregnancy with Labour

Spurious Hyperleukocytosis

Hyperleukocytosis is an oncological emergency but is extremely rare in non-malignant conditions. Nucleated RBCs give rise to spuriously high total leucocyte count and cause clinical dilemma. Thalassemia major patients are known to have leucocytosis even after correction for nucleated RBCs. We report a case of undiagnosed Thalassemia major in a 4 month old infant with total leucocyte count highe...

Endocrinology and physiology of pseudocyesis

This literature review on pseudocyesis or false pregnancy aims to find epidemiological, psychiatric/psychologic, gynecological and endocrine traits associated with this condition in order to propose neuroendocrine/endocrine mechanisms leading to the emergence of pseudocyetic traits. Ten women from 5 selected studies were analyzed after applying stringent criteria to discriminate between cases o...

Pseudocyesis in peri- and postmenopausal women

Pseudocyesis or delusion of pregnancy is a rare psychopathological syndrome described in humans and higher mammals. We describe and discuss two cases of this rare syndrome in a 46-year perimenopausal and a 59-year old postmenopausal woman. Gynecologic, ultrasound examination, and biochemistry testing (b-HCG) confirm the diagnosis of nonexistent clinical and biochemical pregnancy. These examinat...

Pseudocyesis associated with folie à deux.

DeMontyel (1881) divided folie a deux into three subgroups: fo!ie simu!tanée, in which there is the coincidental, simultaneousbutindependent appearance of psychotic symptoms in two family members who are predisposed to a psychosis and who are living together; bIle communiquée,in which two persons who are at risk from developing a psychosis become psychotic, but each subject adopts one or more...