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Clinical management varies widely, with many patients receiving combinations of therapies. [2] The prognosis of ME/CFS is poor, with recovery considered “rare”. [3] [4] There are no Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for ME/CFS, although medications are sometimes used without approval for the illness .
The first avian picornavirus to have its genome sequenced, [3] it causes epidemic tremor in chickens. Tremovirus is of economic importance to chicken farmers because it causes a drop in egg production in laying hens, and neurological diseases in chicks less than three weeks old.
Treatment is usually supportive in nature while also providing antiviral drug therapy. The primary exception to this is herpes simplex encephalitis, which is treatable with acyclovir . Prognosis is good for most individuals who are infected by an encephalitic virus but is poor among those who develop severe symptoms, including viral encephalitis.
Encephalomyelitis is inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Various types of encephalomyelitis include: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or postinfectious encephalomyelitis, a demyelinating disease of the brain and spinal cord, possibly triggered by viral infection. [1] [2] Encephalomyelitis disseminata, a synonym for multiple sclerosis.
Several studies reporting an average survival time of less than a year, from the time of diagnosis. Much of the prognosis depends on the efficacy of treatment, which is directed at the underlying cancer, if present. [23] [24] [25] Patients with lower titers of the anti-Hu antibody tend to have a better prognosis. [16]
Patients with anti-mGluR5-abs present with a form of encephalitis named "Ophelia syndrome", a clinical syndrome that includes memory loss and psychosis in association with Hodgkin's lymphoma. [31] The outcome of reported cases is generally good after treatment of the lymphoma and immunotherapy. [31] [1]
Despite ample evidence that ME/CFS is an organic disease, many clinicians do not recognise it as genuine or underestimate its seriousness. [6] [1] [4] A 2020 literature review found that “a third to a half of all GPs did not accept ME/CFS as a genuine clinical entity and, even when they did, they lacked confidence in diagnosing or managing it.” [4]
Bird fancier's lung (BFL), also known as bird breeder's lung, is a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.It can cause shortness of breath, fever, dry cough, chest pain, anorexia and weight loss, fatigue, and progressive pulmonary fibrosis (the most serious complication).