…adolescents is prodromal depression, a discrete psychosomatic condition, or an infectious or immunologic disorder that mimics depression. Comment in: Chronic fatigue in children: illness or disease? [Pediatrics. 1993] Chronic fatigue…
Abstract OBJECTIVES: To identify psychiatric differences between patients with chronic fatigue and those with rheumatoid arthritis and to investigate whether patients meeting Centers for Disease Control (CDC) criteria for chronic…
…method amplified a sequence common to a wide range of enteroviral serotypes. A highly significant number of the muscle biopsies (53%: P = less than 0.001) from the patients were…
…(41.2%) were cases and a further 9 (26.5%) were subcases of psychiatric disorder as defined by CATEGO. A variety of diagnoses was found. Significantly fewer of the muscle patients had…
…F, Ammatuna P, Bellia L, Sammartano F, Violante M, Albeggiani A. Clinical and pathogenetic observations on children with chronic mononucleosis. Pediatr Med Chir. 1991 Sep-Oct;13(5):489-94. [Article in Italian] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1664943 …
…(CD38, HLA-DR) on CD8 cells were found. The differences were significant (p = 0.01) in patient with major symptoms of the disease. These immunological indices were not observed in 80…
…an HIV-1-positive AIDS patient from Zaire (Z-29) were closely related but distinct from GS type HHV-6 isolates. Based on the above findings, we propose that, like herpes simplex virus types…
…in FM patients whose symptoms appear following a “flu-like” illness appears warranted. Source: Leventhal LJ, Naides SJ, Freundlich B. Fibromyalgia and parvovirus infection. Arthritis Rheum. 1991 Oct;34(10):1319-24. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1657005 …
Abstract: Nucleic acid was extracted from muscle biopsy samples from a series of highly selected patients suffering from chronic muscle fatiguability following a viral infection (Postviral Fatigue Syndrome: PVFS). Samples…
…Psychiatric assessment embraces a comprehensive (biopsychosocial) approach, and distinguishes factors that perpetuate the condition from those that may have precipitated it. Treatments are targeted at perpetuating factors. Few controlled treatment…