(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).
Neurasthenia
Definition:
(n.) A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.
Example Sentences:
(1) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
(2) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
(3) The Japanese preferred alternative was to give a vague alternative diagnosis such as neurasthenia.
(4) Uncertainty of diagnosis with ever expanding diagnostic criteria, therapy undertaken without an adequate physiological basis, and often adverse effects from therapy, were characteristic of the medicalization of neurasthenia and premenstrual syndrome.
(5) This paper evaluates the claim that Vietnam veterans with psychiatric disorders are suffering from toxic neurasthenia--a neurasthenic syndrome caused by exposure to pesticides while serving in Vietnam.
(6) Findings from empirical research on neurasthenia in China, and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the United States, corroborate this formulation.
(7) Based on quotations from Freuds writings on the actual neurosis and quotations from Schultz-Henckes writings on neurasthenia and nervousness, the psychodynamics of psychovegetative disturbances are demonstrated through an examplatory case.
(8) Thus, in the work- and production-oriented society, chronic fatigue, which affects one's productivity and ability to work, becomes a hallmark of neurasthenia or neurasthenia-like syndrome.
(9) The focused ultrasound has been used for the comparative study of skin sensitivity to pain in 51 healthy men and 64 patients with neurasthenia, natural model of the chronic psycho-emotional stress.
(10) Depression was not a frequent diagnosis, but neurasthenia was a fairly common one.
(11) Despite its origin in Western psychiatry, neurasthenia has become a popular concept in Chinese folk medicine, referring to a variety of somatic and psychological symptoms.
(12) Thirty patients with cerebral arachnoiditis and 26 with neurasthenia were found to have differences in the content of serotonin, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic++ acid and melatonin in the cerebrospinal fluid, which depended in arachnoiditis on the degree of intracranial pressure elevation.
(13) Popular Chinese books on neurasthenia suggest that causes might be attributed to lifestyle, psychological factors, and health problems.
(14) It is further argued that neither neurasthenia nor 'ME' can be fully understood within a single medical or psychiatric model.
(15) helped to enhance exercise tolerance, to lower the blood levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, FFA, the total fraction of low- and very low-density lipoproteins, to reduce manifestations of hypochondriasis, depression, and neurasthenia .
(16) The history of neurasthenia is discussed in the light of current interest in chronic fatigue, and in particular the illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis ('ME').
(17) Both the nineteenth and twentieth century cultural views of women were important in the establishment of menstruation, neurasthenia and premenstrual syndrome as medical conditions.
(18) Two forms of neuroses--neurasthenia and hysteria--show statistically definitive differences in the EEG patterns.
(19) Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and neurasthenia were seen significantly more often among the female patients than in the normal women.
(20) The functional stomatological diseases in the form of stomatalgias were revealed in all the patients suffering from neurasthenia, neurotic depression, neurotic development of the personality as well as from psychopathy decompensation.