Abstract:
218 patients were examined and the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was diagnosed in them on the basis of clinical-and-immunologic data. 126 somatically healthy persons of the same age and sex were in the control group. Vascular pathology of the vision organ was found in 153 (70.2%) persons, and dystrophic pathology was found in 115 (52.8%) persons. A combination of vascular and dystrophic pathologies of the vision organ was diagnosed in 46 (21.1%) patients. The detection of vision pathology in the CFS patients essentially exceeded the morbidity of similar pathology in the controls. No reliable differences of refraction anomalies were found between the CFS patients and the controls.
Source: Frolov VM, Petrunia AM. Pathology of the organ of vision in chronic fatigue syndrome. Vestn Oftalmol. 2003 Mar-Apr;119(2):45-7. [Article in Russian] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13678013