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Chronic fatigue
Alternative names for chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is the name currently used by the majority of the medical and scientific community to describe a condition or set of conditions characterized by fatigue and other symptoms. The term is contested, mostly by patients and patient advocacy groups, but also by some doctors. Several of the more common alternative names used to describe what most believe to be the same condition or subtypes include myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), and post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS). In 1959, E...
Chronic fatigue - List of case studies
- Suspected Fibromyalgia
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colon, concentration problems, inability to manage the fatigue and strong pains at the right mandibular level. ... the increase in muscular tone and rigidity caused by chronic pain. The patient additionally suffers from recurrent migraine and ...
- Sinus Tachycardia in Mitral Insufficiency
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Milan with entrance diagnosis: other specified forms of chronic ischaemic cardiopathy and diagnosis at discharge of inappropriate ... presence of any beta blocker may contribute to a sense of fatigue in this young patient. 2. With normal left ventricular ...
- List of Symptoms
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Chest tightness Chests pains Chills Chronic fatigue Chronic pain Claudication Coalition symptoms ...
- Acute Infectious Mononucleosis with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)
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enlarged lymph nodes, liver and spleen. Weakness, fatigue, night-sweats may last several weeks. More than 90% of patients ... to validate that the infection moved from acute to the chronic phase - What can you infer causes the skin rash that comes in the ...
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) secondary to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
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old patient presented with clinical syndrome of fever, fatigue, and diarrhea. Laboratory findings showed severe anemia with findings ... important to taper his steroids, however, as suggested, as chronic use (more than 6 months) of relatively high doses could adversely ...