Volume 3 Issue 8 August, 2013
❌ Panic disorder and Palpitation are one and the same
✅ Palpitation is not Panic Disorder. According to WHO Panic Disorder is diagnosed when multiple panic attacks that are characterized by breathlessness, chest pain, sense of impending doom or going crazy, dizziness, tremors, dryness of mouth, urgency in urination & other symptoms appear ‘out of blue’. Anticipatory anxiety for further attacks is present in between.
❌ Patients with Panic disorders should undergo Angiogram.
✅ Patients with Panic disorders most often can be distinguished from cardiac conditions by clinical history, especially history of similar episodes in the past & these patients may not have associated with cardiac risk factors. ECG is almost always normal thus they do not require Angiogram.
