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Panic Disorder—It's Real and It's Treatable
Richard M. Glass, MD
JAMA. 2000;283:2573-2574.
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The title above, taken from a National Institute of Mental Health public service announcement, is an important message for physicians and for the public because of the common occurrence of clinical situations exemplified by the following prototypical scenario: A previously healthy young adult presents for urgent evaluation because of the most recent episode of recurrent, spontaneous attacks consisting of a rapid crescendo of intense anxiety accompanied by frightening physical sensations of "pounding heart," chest pain, sweating, shortness of breath, and dizziness, along with a fear of dying or losing control. The patient's medical history, physical examination, and electrocardiogram are otherwise unremarkable except for the presence of sinus tachycardia. The likely diagnosis is panic disorder (PD).1
The official recognition in 1980 of PD as a syndrome with reliable diagnostic criteria2 replaced a number of earlier terms, such as irritable heart, soldier's heart, and hyperventilation syndrome, that had . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Author Affiliation: Dr Glass is Deputy Editor, JAMA.
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