Abstract:
BACKGROUND: In the past five years we experienced 9 fatigued disabled children who were intermittently or persistently absent from school.
PATIENTS: They had been suspected to be burdened with psychosomatic disorders, having orthostatic hypotension, postural tachycardia, or other autonomic dysfunction symptoms.
RESULTS: Investigating the cause of moderate orthostatic proteinuria in some of them, we found by chance severe typical nutcracker phenomenon (NC), which was present in all 9 children complaining of chronic fatigue.
CONCLUSION: Their symptoms filled the criteria of chronic fatigue syndrome or idiopathic chronic fatigue (CFS/CF). An association between severe NC and autonomic dysfunction symptoms in children with CFS/CF has been presented.
Source: Takahashi Y, Ohta S, Sano A, Kuroda Y, Kaji Y, Matsuki M, Matsuo M. Does severe nutcracker phenomenon cause pediatric chronic fatigue? Clin Nephrol. 2000 Mar;53(3):174-81. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10749295