Cardiac Involvement in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as Documented with Holter and Biopsy Data in Birmingham, Michigan, 1991-1993

We report the prevalence of abnormal oscillating T-waves at Holter monitoring in a consecutive case series of 67 chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients from an infectious diseases center in Birmingham, Michigan, in the years 1991-1993, and compare these abnormal T-waves to similar tests in 78 non-C...

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Veröffentlicht in:Infectious diseases in clinical practice (Baltimore, Md.) Md.), 1997-06, Vol.6 (5), p.327-333
Hauptverfasser: Lerner, Martin A, Goldstein, James, Chang, Chung-ho, Zervos, Marcus, Fitzgerald, James T, Dworkin, Howard J, Lawrie-Hoppen, Claudine, Korotkin, Steven M, Brodsky, Marc, OʼNeill, William
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Zusammenfassung:We report the prevalence of abnormal oscillating T-waves at Holter monitoring in a consecutive case series of 67 chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients from an infectious diseases center in Birmingham, Michigan, in the years 1991-1993, and compare these abnormal T-waves to similar tests in 78 non-CFS patients matched for age, place, time, and the absence of known other confounding medical diseases. Patients in both groups had normal resting 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs), rest/stress myocardial perfusion studies (thallium 201 or TC-99 sestamibi studies and two-dimensional echocardiograms (except for the incidental findings of mitral valve prolapse without significant regurgitation or, an incidental nonsignificant aortic stenosis). The prevalence of labile T-wave abnormalities by Holter monitoring was greater in CFS patients than in non-CFS patients (P
ISSN:1056-9103
1536-9943
DOI:10.1097/00019048-199706050-00010