Idiopathic chronic fatigue and myalgia syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis): some thoughts on nomenclature and aetiology
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 148 (2) , 80-82
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb104513.x
Abstract
Myalgic encephalomyelitis is a misnomer that describes epidemics of probable hysterical illness and bears no definite relationship to chronic fatigue and myalgia syndrome. The relationship of idiopathic fatigue syndromes to fatigue syndromes after well-defined viral illnesses such as glandular fever is also unclear. Detailed studies of muscle histochemistry and biochemistry in idiopathic chronic fatigue and myalgia syndrome do not support a defect in intermediate metabolism. The aetiology of this syndrome is unknown and it is not yet clear whether it has an organic or a non-organic basis.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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