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Psychosomatic Medicine 13:277-288 (1951)
© 1951 American Psychosomatic Society

Electrocardiographic Abnormalities Associated with Emotional Disturbances

A Case Report

ROBERT H. CREDE M.D.1, NORMAN C. CHIVERS M.D.2, and ALVIN P. SHAPIRO M.D3

1 Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; Division of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
2 Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
3 Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

A patient who developed electrocardiographic abnormalities in association with situations which provoked anxiety is reported. Psychologic and physiologic data obtained during a prolonged period of observation are described. Mechanisms by which anxiety could produce the observed electrocardiographic changes are discussed.

Submitted on August 14, 1950




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