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Postgraduate Medical Journal 1990;66:1064-1067; doi:10.1136/pgmj.66.782.1064
Copyright © 1990 The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

Capgras' syndrome with organic disorders.

M. N. Collins, M. E. Hawthorne, N. Gribbin and R. Jacobson

St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.

Capgras' syndrome, one form of the delusional misidentification syndromes, is described. Three patients with the syndrome are reported. The first had a right cerebral infarction, the second had nephrotic syndrome secondary to severe pre-eclampsia in the puerperium, and the third had uncontrolled diabetes mellitus with dementia. Evidence is reviewed regarding an organic aetiology for Capgras' syndrome. We conclude that, when the syndrome is present, a thorough search for organic disorder should be made.


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