Missed Diagnoses: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Missed Diagnoses: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Author	Byron Hyde
Language	English
Subject	Medical textbook
Genre	Medical
Publisher	Lulu.com
Publication date	2011
Media type	print
Pages	146
ISBN	978-0557325177

Missed Diagnoses: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a book by Dr Byron Hyde, founder of the Nightingale Research Foundation. The foreword is by Dr Malcolm Hooper.

Publisher's synopsis

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A few notes on this NEW revised and expanded edition which includes Dr. Hyde's chapter from the new Puri & Treasaden textbook:

"Thirty years ago when a patient presented to a hospital clinic with unexplained fatigue, any medical school physician would have told the students to search for an occult malignancy, cardiac or other organ disease or chronic infection. The concept that there is an entity called chronic fatigue syndrome has totally altered that essential medical guideline. Patients are now being diagnosed with CFS as though it were a disease. It is not. It is a patchwork of symptoms that could mean anything. The original concepts of searching for occult disease are relevant to patients today with CFS, ME and other fatiguing illnesses. Furthermore, because you do not find pathology does not mean there is none."

Links

• Missed Diagnoses: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Amazon (US)
• Missed Diagnoses: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Amazon (UK)
• Missed Diagnoses: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Goodreads
• Missed Diagnoses: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Lulu.com

See also

• Byron Hyde
• Nightingale Research Foundation

References

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myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) - A disease often marked by neurological symptoms, but fatigue is sometimes a symptom as well. Some diagnostic criteria distinguish it from chronic fatigue syndrome, while other diagnostic criteria consider it to be a synonym for chronic fatigue syndrome. A defining characteristic of ME is post-exertional malaise (PEM), or post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE), which is a notable exacerbation of symptoms brought on by small exertions. PEM can last for days or weeks. Symptoms can include cognitive impairments, muscle pain (myalgia), trouble remaining upright (orthostatic intolerance), sleep abnormalities, and gastro-intestinal impairments, among others. An estimated 25% of those suffering from ME are housebound or bedbound. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies ME as a neurological disease.

See chronic fatigue syndrome.

See myalgic encephalomyelitis.