Abstract
Psychiatric comorbidity is not an uncommon phenomenon in patients with noncardiac chest pain (NCCP). Panic disorder seems to be the most important psychiatric comorbidity for a number of reasons. First, it is the most common psychiatric disorder associated with NCCP. Second, panic disorder is a highly treatable condition that can produce dramatic improvement of NCCP when treatment is appropriate. Finally, the treatment of psychiatric comorbidity, whether panic disorder or other psychiatric disorders, can pay significant dividends in terms of improving the patient's overall well-being and adaptation to illness, even if his/her chest pain symptoms are not alleviated. Adopting a biopsychosocial model to intervene on the stress of these patients' experience is a key concept that can make NCCP a much less formidable challenge for the gastroenterologist.
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