(n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
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Asthenia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Astheny
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(1) Along with asthenia, polyadenopathies, and shingles, it is often an early sign of AIDS.
(2) None of these factors explains the phenomenon of asthenia, a subjective sense of exhaustion that produces no objective impairment of physical performance.
(3) Certain abnormal phenomena in the field of consciousness and body sensations are typical of coenasthetic schizophrenia, with vital asthenia and vegetative symptoms.
(4) The difference between the two types was significant (P less than 0.01, P less than 0.05) whereas the positive rates of the CIC, TMCA, TGA also were higher in the deficiency of Yin leads to hyperactivity of Fire than those in the depression of Liver-energy and asthenia of Spleen.
(5) We conclude that asthenia is a frequent symptom in patients with advanced breast cancer, which, in our series, showed independent correlations only with psychological distress.
(6) The subjects were divided into 5 groups: heart-asthenia syndrome (98 cases), lung-asthenia syndrome (23 cases), spleen-asthenia syndrome (23 cases), kidney-asthenia syndrome (10 cases) and normal group (100 cases).
(7) Only the Th of the group of asthenia of both Spleen and Kidney among 5 syndrome groups was decreased significantly and contrary to the group of deficiency of Liver-Yin and Kidney-Yin.
(8) Although the risk of fulminant hepatitis is very low, we recommend that, in patients taking pirprofen for more than 2 mo and complaining of asthenia, nausea, or vomiting, serum aminotransferase levels should be measured and administration of the drug should be interrupted as soon as an increased level is noted.
(9) Lumbosacral pain disappeared in 87 out of 90, subjects, intercostal pain in 20 out of 28, headache mitigated in 40 out of 53, asthenia was markedly reduced in 49 out of 50.
(10) On the basis of the above mathematical method it has been established that the most informative syndromes of Addison's disease are the combination of asthenia and adynamia with mass deficiency, arterial hypotension, skin pigmentation and nervous-psychic break-down.
(11) One should distinguish in these patients mental disorders per se (asthenia, depression and hypochondria) and different functional-somatic, vegetative-vascular and senestopathic disorders and their combinations.
(12) Cancer cachexia is a complex syndrome that includes host tissue wasting, anorexia, asthenia, and abnormal host intermediary metabolism.
(13) In these patients with asthenia-syndrome the activity of IL-2 receptor was lower than those with asthenia syndrome.
(14) The local pain and the asthenia, general malaise and myalgia were the more outstanding symptoms in both cases.
(15) It is concluded that asthenia, adynamia and anorexia were atypical manifestations of heart failure in the elderly.
(16) The most frequent observations were taste disorders, asthenia and weight gain.
(17) The most common side effects associated with terazosin treatment are dizziness, headache, asthenia and nasal congestion, but these are usually mild and do not require treatment discontinuation.
(18) Relieving these affective disorders and asthenia was conductive to evaluation of the true degree of partially reversible mnestic disorders.
(19) Fifty-six patients with cerebral atherosclerosis and epileptiform symptomatology presented an organic defect with signs of lacunar imbecility and atherosclerotic asthenia.
(20) This 1st definition contained 4 major criteria (chronic asthenia, major weight loss, chronic fever, and chronic diarrhea) and 6 minor criteria (chronic cough, persistent lymphadenopathy, herpes zoster, recurrent herpetic infection, pruritic dermatitis, and oropharyngeal candidiasis).