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The pathophysiology of cancer-related fatigue is poorly understood. It may be caused by the cancer or the effects it has on the body, by the body's response to the cancer, or by the cancer treatments. Fatigue is a common symptom of cancer. [3] Some fatigue is caused by cancer treatments. This may show a characteristic pattern.
However, fatigue during the day is a common symptom experienced by people in the later stages of dementia or even earlier with certain types of dementia, such as Lewy body dementia, due to changes ...
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a type of dementia, a group of diseases involving progressive neurodegeneration of the central nervous system. [11] It is one of the two Lewy body dementias, along with Parkinson's disease dementia. [12] Dementia with Lewy bodies can be classified in other ways.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. [2] It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [2] [15] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [1]
She does it all using her memory of how to play the instrument, as at this time she is unable to read music.
Frailty or frailty syndrome refers to a state of health in which older adults gradually lose their bodies' in-built reserves and functioning. This makes them more vulnerable, less able to recover and even apparently minor events (infections, environmental changes) can have drastic impacts on their physical and mental health.
Older patients also tend to have more weight loss and less of an increase in appetite. Thus anorexia in this group is fairly frequent, as is constipation . [ 4 ] Elderly patients may have what is called "apathetic thyrotoxicosis", a state in which they have less and less severe symptoms, except for weakness, depression and lethargy (making it ...
Kahley Schiller's fatigue and nausea symptoms turned out to be acute liver failure end-stage. She shares her story of receiving a liver transplant. ‘I Thought I Had Chronic Fatigue.