Current therapeutic strategies for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: results of an online survey
| العنوان: | Current therapeutic strategies for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: results of an online survey |
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| المؤلفون: | Suzanne D. Vernon, Spyros Deftereos, Andreas Persidis |
| المصدر: | Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior. 4:39-51 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | musculoskeletal diseases, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Encephalomyelitis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Alternative medicine, virus diseases, Medicine (miscellaneous), Citalopram, medicine.disease, Efficacy, 03 medical and health sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience, 0302 clinical medicine, Chronic fatigue syndrome, medicine, Physical therapy, Anxiety, Treatment strategy, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, 030212 general & internal medicine, medicine.symptom, business, Depression (differential diagnoses), medicine.drug |
| الوصف: | Background: The treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) symptoms poses significant challenges. Purpose: To enumerate current clinical treatment strategies for ME/CFS. Methods: A survey was deployed via the Internet to eleven expert clinicians in ME/CFS. The experts rated medications for 18 symptoms and listed symptom groups that they considered as interrelated and representative of different ME/CFS phenotypes. Respondents rated drug efficacy on an ordinal scale (1 = very effective to 5 = not effective). Free text was also permitted to comment on treatment strategies and ME/CFS phenotypes. Results: Data were available for 11/20 respondents. Citalopram was reported to be more than moderately effective for depression/anxiety and similarly fentanyl for muscle aches and arthralgias. Low-dose stimulants and low-dose bupriopion were viewed as effective for fatigue by five respondents. Regarding ME/CFS phenotypes, respondents suggested that (a) sleep improvement can ameliorate pos... |
| تدمد: | 2164-1862 2164-1846 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::15ba4212399ed5597c0cd64448d8325b https://doi.org/10.1080/21641846.2015.1126025 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........15ba4212399ed5597c0cd64448d8325b |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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