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Does the presence of mitral valve prolapse affect clinical and psychological symptoms in female agoraphobic patients?
Does the presence of mitral valve prolapse affect clinical and psychological symptoms in female agoraphobic patients?
Agoraphobia associated with mitral valve prolapse appears clinically and psychologically indistinguishable from agoraphobia without mitral valve prolapse.
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Agoraphobia with MVP is clinically and psychologically indistinguishable; leaves open whether cardiac screening alters management in this population.
Of 46 female agoraphobic patients, three had definite and four had probable mitral valve prolapse--a total prevalence of only 15%. There were no significant differences between patients with mitral valve prolapse and the rest of the sample on demographic and clinical variables, nor did the groups differ significantly on measures of psychological symptoms assessed before and after treatment. These negative findings support recent reports indicating that agoraphobia associated with mitral valve prolapse may be indistinguishable from agoraphobia without mitral valve prolapse.
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Mavissakalian et al. (1983) studied this question.
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