Panic disorder masquerading as pre-eclampsia.
Panic disorder is a specific psychiatric entity with specific and successful treatments. A parturient patient with sudden hypertension, hyperreflexia and headache was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia and treated with magnesium sulphate. Further attacks after discharge were recognized as panic attacks, and resolved with the anti-depressant imipramine.
Benjamin
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J
Division of Psychiatry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheba, Israel.
Benjamin
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D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007099:Imipramine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy
D007099:Imipramine