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Name Specialty Associated conditions External link (if no internal link) Descriptor Aaron's sign: Charles Dettie Aaron: surgery: appendicitis: epigastric pain with pressure on McBurney's point Abadie's sign: Jean Marie Charles Abadie: endocrinology: Graves' disease: levator palpebrae superioris spasm Abadie's symptom: Joseph Louis Irenée Jean ...
List of medical symptoms. Medical symptoms refer to the manifestations or indications of a disease or condition, perceived and complained about by the patient. [1] [2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals.
A systematic review found five RCTs to have assessed the effects of immunoglobulin treatment for ME/CFS; [42] of these, two RCTs showed an overall beneficial effect and two RCTs showed some positive results, although in one of the studies this was for physiological effects only. The largest of the RCTs found no effect for the treatment.
They include unexplained weight loss, headache, pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, night sweats, and malaise. [21] A group of three particular nonspecific symptoms – fever, night sweats, and weight loss – over a period of six months are termed B symptoms associated with lymphoma and indicate a poor prognosis. [22] Other sub-types of symptoms ...
Malaise is a non-specific symptom and can be present in the slightest ailment, such as an emotion (causing fainting, a vasovagal response) or hunger (light hypoglycemia [2]), to the most serious conditions (cancer, stroke, heart attack, internal bleeding, etc.).
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
Post-acute infection syndromes (PAISs) or post-infectious syndromes are medical conditions characterized by symptoms attributed to a prior infection.While it is commonly assumed that people either recover or die from infections, long-term symptoms—or sequelae—are a possible outcome as well. [1]
The initial chronic fatigue syndrome definition was published in 1988. It is also called the "Holmes definition", after the manuscript's first author. [10] The Homes criteria require these two points: Debilitating fatigue of new onset which interferes with the patient's daily activities; Other fatiguing conditions must be eliminated