Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:864-866
Copyright © 1985 by American Psychiatric Association
Lactate infusions in obsessive-compulsive disorder
JM Gorman, MR Liebowitz, AJ Fyer, D Dillon, SO Davies, J Stein and DF Klein
Panic attacks followed sodium lactate infusions in one of seven patients
with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 26 of 48 patients with panic
disorder or agoraphobia with panic attacks. This suggests that
lactate-induced panic is specific to the latter groups.