High prevalence of fatigue in chronic hepatitis and hepatitis C based cirrhosis in contrast to non-viral cirrhosis
A Geier, CG Dietrich, K Aull, N Güner-Capraz, N Busch, C Trautwein, C Gartung · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2007 · Heft 01
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Introduction: Chronic fatigue represents a common problem in chronic diseases, particularly chronic liver disease. Therefore we investigated symptoms of fatigue in patients with chronic hepatitis (CH) and liver cirrhosis (LC) of different origin in detail. Methods: 124 patients (81 with CH and 43 with child-A LC but without encephalopathy) were enrolled after informed consent. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (32) and healthy subjects (38) served as control groups. A Visual Analogue Scale, the Fatigue Severity Scale and the Fatigue Impact Scale were used for grading of fatigue. Further tests and question…
