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== Ganglionitis == [[File:Merry Crofts sick.JPG|250px|thumb|Merryn was bedbound and unable to eat. She weighed under six stone (84 lbs) at her death; her autopsy revealed [[Dorsal root ganglia|ganglia]] [[inflammation]]. It is suspected that in the later years of her illness Merryn also suffered from [[Ehlers-Danlos syndrome|EDS]] and [[Mast cell activation disorder|MCAS]]. Her death certificate is the 2nd in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] to attribute a death to ME.<ref name="Times26May2018">{{Cite news | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/me-sufferer-merryn-crofts-who-was-dismissed-as-hysterical-vindicated-in-death-lq9j2lc7w | title = ME sufferer who was dismissed as hysterical vindicated in death|publisher=The Times | last = Bannerman | first = Lucy | date = May 26, 2018}}</ref>]] * May 18, 2018, [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/young-woman-bed-bound-three-12559425 Young woman bed-bound for three years before dying of disease that some insist is all in the mind]<ref name=":2">{{Cite news | url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/young-woman-bed-bound-three-12559425 | title = Young woman bed-bound for three years before dying of disease that some insist is all in the mind | last = Siddle | first = John | date = 2018-05-18|work=The Mirror|access-date=2018-08-16|quote=|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=}}</ref> <blockquote>Pathologist Daniel DuPlessis said that a post-mortem showed low-grade [[inflammation]] of nerve roots. It was suggested that this inflammation could have made her bowel hypersensitive to processing nutrients.</blockquote><blockquote>Dr DuPlessis pointed out that Merryn had inflammation of the [[Dorsal root ganglia|ganglia]] – gatekeepers to sensations in the [[brain]]. A post-mortem into the only other UK death attributed to ME, Sophia Mirza, 32, in 2006, also found [[ganglionitis]].<ref name=":2" /></blockquote> * May 19, 2018, [https://www.meaction.net/2018/05/19/inquest-rules-merryn-crofts-died-due-to-severe-me/ Inquest Rules Merryn Crofts Died Due to Severe ME]<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.meaction.net/2018/05/19/inquest-rules-merryn-crofts-died-due-to-severe-me/ | title = Inquest Rules Merryn Crofts Died Due to Severe ME | last = Tillman | first = Adriane | authorlink= | date = 2018-05-19 | website = #MEAction|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2019-03-27}}</ref> <blockquote>The Rochdale Coroner's Court reported that a post-mortem showed low-grade inflammation of nerve roots. It was suggested that this inflammation could have made her bowel hypersensitive to processing nutrients, reported the [[ME Association|ME association]].</blockquote><blockquote>"[The pathologist] pointed out that Merryn had inflammation of the [[Basal ganglia|ganglia]] – gatekeepers to sensations in the brain. A post-mortem into the only other UK death attributed to ME, [[Sophia Mirza]], 32, in 2006, also found ganglionitis."<ref name=":3" /></blockquote>
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