title: Panic disorder masquerading as pre-eclampsia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychiatry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheba, Israel.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Benjamin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Benjamin
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D007099:Imipramine