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Query: UMLS:C0015674 (
chronic fatigue syndrome
)
2,978
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Chronic fatigue syndrome
(
CFS
) is a debilitating heterogeneous disorder lacking consistent, objective physical or laboratory abnormalities. Among the hypothetical etiologies for
CFS
are chronic viral infections. The present controlled seroprevalence study found that, among typical
CFS
patients, evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is uncommon. Only one of 36 patients and none of 14 controls were anti-HCV positive. The positive patient had persistent aminotransferase elevations and prior
posttransfusion hepatitis
. Thus HCV infection is not a common feature of
CFS
and should not be routinely sought.
...
PMID:Chronic fatigue syndrome: lack of association with hepatitis C virus infection. 165 18
