Cachexia Cachexia is seen in patients with cancer, AIDS, chronic obstructive lung disease, multiple sclerosis, congestive heart failure, tuberculosis, familial amyloid polyneuropathy, mercury poisoning (acrodynia) and hormonal deficiency. It can be a sign of various underlying disorders; when a patient presents with cachexia, a doctor will generally consider the possibility of cancer, metabolic acidosis (from decreased protein synthesis and increased protein catabolism), certain infectious diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, AIDS), chronic pancreatitis, and some autoimmune disorders, or addiction to amphetamine. Cachexia physically weakens patients to a state of immobility stemming from loss of appetite, asthenia, and anemia, and response to standard treatment is usually poor. Cachexia includes sarcopenia as a part of its pathology. Mycoplasma - There might have been misunderstood, misdiagnosed, mistreated or over looked. There is a similarity among ME/CFS/FM, MCTD, SLE, Multiple sclerosis, GWI, Lyme disease and Mycoplasma Infcetious Diseases Mycoplasma Infectious Diseases is the systemic vasculitis/neuritis. Mycoplasma Infectious Diseases is not only pneumonia but also asthma, arthritis, nephritis, meningitis, encephalitis, dermatitis, pancreatitis, hepatitis, abnormalities in blood, so on. The concept of “Mycoplasma Infectious Diseases” is broad from acute to chronic phase with a variegated condition. Therefore, it is confusing and difficult to identify the mycoplasma-infected patient among those of incurable diseases, such as autoimmune diseases, a rheumatic disease, a nervous system disorder, and hematological disorders. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia
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