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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2026

Delusion of Pregnancy: An Updated Systematic Review.

Matteo Angelo Fabris, Dawid Konrad Ścigała

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Matteo Angelo FabrisDepartment of Psychology, University of Turin, Via Verdi 10, 10124 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4522-5652
Dawid Konrad ŚcigałaDepartment of Psychology, Institute of Psychology, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Ul. Szczęśliwicka 40, 02-353 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1409-5218

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Delusion of pregnancy (DoP) is a rare psychopathological symptom characterised by the fixed, delusional conviction of being pregnant in the absence of objective evidence. The systematic review by Bera and Sarkar remains, to this day, the principal quantitative reference on the phenomenon, based on 84 cases published up to August 2014. The aim of the present work is to update this case series by including literature published between September 2014 and August 2026, and to analyse any clinical and aetiological differences that emerge relative to the original sample. Thirty-two new cases were identified from 18 publications, extracted using the same categorical grid employed in the original study and integrated with the 84 historical cases (combined sample,

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delusional disorderdelusional procreation syndromedelusion of pregnancygeriatric psychosishyperprolactinaemiasystematic review

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PMID42881865
PMCPMC13665419

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