The British Journal of Psychiatry 152: 280-281 (1988)
© 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Mitral valve prolapse and social phobia
K Chaleby and G Ziady
Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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.