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Abstract
Panic disorder IS anxiety disorder characterized by
autonomic , neurologic as well as cognitive symptoms.
This work aimed at studing the boundaries and overlap of panic
disorder and other mental and organic disorder .
The practical part of this work is performed on 50 patients
diagnosed as panic disorder according to 1. C. D. 10 diagnosed criteria
. Then we further divided them into 3 group . The first one includes
panic disorder patient alone , the second, includes patients of panic
and depression, the last group includes patients with panic and phobia.
AJl patients and sex , and age matched normal control subjected
to the following :
* P. S. E. Scale.
* Detennination ofN. E. level in serum .
’Ii Determination of 5 H. T. level in blood.
* Detennination of serum T3 and T4 .
* Detennination of serum cholesterol .
* Echocardiographic study .
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Our results revealed overlap between panic disorder symptoms,
depressive .symptoms and phobic symptoms . On the other hand
laboratory results concluded a similarity in neurotransmitters changes in
panic group and panic with phobia group and both are differ from the
group of panic and depression . Moreover, T3 and T4 are highly
significant in panic group and panic with phobia than panic with
depression and normal control group while cholesterol level is high
only in the group of panic and depression .
Echocardiographic data revealed 7 patients ( 14% ) with
evidence of mitral valve prolapse and one normal individual shows the
same pathology . This results is consistent with Mubark et al. , (1997)
who reported 20% of their patient of panic disorder have echocardiographic evidence of mitraivalve prolapse .