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Mitral Valve Prolapse and Social Phobia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kutaiba Chaleby  and
Galal Ziady
Kutaiba Chaleby*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist
Galal Ziady
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist
*
∗Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, PO Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abstract

Of 30 Saudi patients with social phobia, eight had echocardiogram evidence of mitral valve prolapse. Only two out of 30 controls had echocardiogram evidence of mitral valve prolapse. The clinical and research implications of this finding are discussed.

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 2 , February 1988 , pp. 280 - 281
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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