Advances in ME/CFS Research and Clinical Care: Part II
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology & Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 39964
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Interests: medical education; empathy; general medicine
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Interests: adrenal diseases; endocrine disorders; laboratory medicine; long COVID; pituitary diseases; steroid hormones; thyroid diseases
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2. Graduate School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Interests: myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Advances in ME/CFS Research and Clinical Care: Part II”. This is a second volume, having published eight papers in the first volume that were viewed 60,930 times. For more details, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina/special_issues/ME_AND_CFS.
Recently, there has been a greater focus on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). However, the blood and urine tests and imaging tests currently used in daily practice do not show any clear abnormal findings. In addition, the fact that the disease is named after a symptom that everyone experiences, “fatigue”, leads to underestimation and lack of understanding, as the disease is misconstrued as “laziness under the pretext of fatigue when there is no particular abnormality”. On the other hand, several patients who contracted COVID-19 have sequelae known as “long COVID”. There are many reports that suggest the similarity of ME/CFS to long COVID. However, we do not fully understand the relationship between these conditions. Thus, in this Special Issue, we hope to increase our understanding of ME/CFS and epidemiologic and clinical facts about long COVID.
We are aiming to solicit papers on the topics of epidemiologic and clinical facts about long COVID, diagnosis of ME/CFS in patients who have long COVID, and treatment and management of ME/CFS and long COVID.
Prof. Dr. Hitomi Kataoka
Prof. Dr. Fumio Otsuka
Prof. Dr. Hirohiko Kuratsune
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Keywords
- ME/CFS
- long COVID
- myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
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