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Panic Attack and Mitral Valve Prolapse

Of 72 Korean patients with recurrent spontaneous panic attacks, none had definite mitral valve prolapse (MVP). With a very low prevalence of MVP in the general population of Korea, this finding suggests that panic disorder without MVP is a universal one regardless of ethnic difference and that the two conditions might be dissociated. Furthermore, panic attack might not be the expression of a genetically determined biological defect which also is underlying MVP. However as seen in the case history of patient with MVP who had felt anxiety symptoms with cardiac symptoms caused by MVP, it is still possible that another form of spontaneous panic attack triggered by arrhythmia of MVP exists .