Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:795-798
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
Clinical characteristics and response to sodium lactate of patients with infrequent panic attacks
DS Cowley, SR Dager, SI Foster and DL Dunner
Nine patients with panic attacks too infrequent to meet DSM-III criteria
for panic disorder were compared to 20 panic disorder patients with respect
to clinical characteristics and response to sodium lactate infusion. The
two groups showed similar clinical characteristics and response to lactate.
The authors conclude that patients with infrequent panic attacks are
clinically and biologically similar to those with panic disorder and
discuss implications for the diagnosis of panic states.
