title: Meeting the frustrations of chronic fatigue syndrome.
abstract: Patients face long-term disability, a variable prognosis, and too often, skeptical or misinformed doctors. Physicians lack laboratory markers or definitive treatment. Nevertheless, the diagnosis can be made with confidence by applying established diagnostic criteria- and selected laboratory studies to exclude other disorders-while symptomatic medication can provide support until recovery begins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Plioplys
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Plioplys
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010808:Physical Examination; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis