phantom HCG

A false positive pregnancy test result is a pregnancy hCG test that is positive when you are not pregnant and there are many possible reasons for this. What are the reasons for a false positive or false negative pregnancy test result?

Patients with a phantom pregnancy hCG will have a persistently and not significantly rising positive blood pregnancy test but the urine test is negative and they are not pregnant.

A "Phantom hCG" is a positive blood pregnancy test without being pregnant. Patients with a phantom hCG will have a persistently and not significantly rising positive blood pregnancy test but the urine test is negative.

Besides a normal pregnancy there are other medical conditions that can give you a positive pregnancy test.