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Panic disorder masquerading as pre-eclampsia

J Benjamin1, M Benjamin

  • 1Division of Psychiatry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheba, Israel.

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.

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