Abstract
Panic disorder serves as a clinical model for testing whether mental stress can cause heart disease. Our own cardiologic management of panic disorder provides case material of recurrent emergency room attendances with angina and electrocardiogram ischemia, triggered arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation, ventricular fibrillation), and documented coronary artery spasm, in some cases with coronary spasm being complicated by coronary thrombosis. Application of radiotracer catecholamine kinetics and clinical microneurography methodology suggests there is a genetic predisposition to panic disorder that involves faulty neuronal norepinephrine uptake, possibly sensitizing the heart to symptom generation. During panic attacks there are large sympathetic bursts, recorded by clinical microneurography in the muscle sympathetic nerve neurogram, and large increases in cardiac norepinephrine spillover, accompanied by surges of adrenal medullary epinephrine secretion. In other conditions such as heart failure and presumably here also, a high level of sympathetic nervous activation can mediate increased cardiac risk. The sympathetic nerve cotransmitter, neuropeptide Y (NPY), is released from the cardiac sympathetics during panic attacks, an intrigu...Continue Reading
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