Review ENDOTEXT: CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, 2023, Lim & Torpy

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CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME

WT Lim, Endocrine and Metabolic Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000. Alexlim.1992@gmail.com

DJ Torpy, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, Endocrinologist, Endocrine and Metabolic Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000. David.torpy@sa.gov.au

Updated August 14, 2023

ABSTRACT

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is an enigmatic medical condition that has growing prevalence across the globe, often diagnosed after exclusion of other medical or mental illnesses.

As there is no clinical test to confirm the presence of this condition, the diagnosis is syndromic based on different clinical definitions.

There was mixed evidence to support the use of a specific therapy that provides palliative effect.

Pathophysiological hypotheses can be categorized into infection, immune, mitochondrial, neurobehavioral, or stress system (HPA axis and sympathetic nervous system) disorders.

The prognosis of ME/CFS is mixed but recovery does occur in many cases, over time.

All-cause mortality rate is not increased.

 

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En guarde dualists.

 

I constantly wonder what the motivation is for doctors to write reviews about things they do not know much about.

 

I hope for someone's sake that the text you quoted was written by a LLM because even then it would have to be a pretty bad one and that's just embarrassing. Reads like someone imitating human language and failing badly at it.