{"id":15689,"date":"2018-03-05T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2018-03-05T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:50:11","slug":"ophthalmic-correlates-of-me-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/ophthalmic-correlates-of-me-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophthalmic correlates of ME\/CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ophthalmic correlates of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)\/ Chronic\u00a0Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)<\/a>, by\u00a0Nadia Sultana Ahmed. MPhil thesis, University of Leicester [Published online 15 Feb 2018]<\/p>\n

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis\/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME\/CFS) is a\u00a0chronic, debilitating disorder. With the exception of disabling fatigue,\u00a0there are few definitive clinical features of the condition. As a\u00a0consequence, patients often have difficulty gaining an appropriate
\ndiagnosis. As such, identifying distinct clinical features of ME\/CFS is\u00a0an important issue.<\/p>\n

\"\"One under researched area of ME\/CFS associated\u00a0symptoms concerns problems related to vision. People with ME\/CFS\u00a0consistently report a range of symptoms related to the quality of their\u00a0vision including pain in the eyes, hypersensitivity to light, difficulty\u00a0focusing on images, slow eye movements, and difficulty tracking object\u00a0movement. However, there has been little attempt to verify patients’\u00a0self-reports using objective methods.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the experiments\u00a0presented in this thesis was to determine the effects of ME\/CFS on: (i)\u00a0 performance on a range of tests of visual sensitivity and (ii) the\u00a0 morphology of the retina.<\/p>\n

Compared to controls, the ME\/CFS group\u00a0 exhibited reduced accommodation, larger pupil diameters, reduced colour\u00a0discrimination and poorer contrast sensitivity towards lower spatial\u00a0frequencies. Thinning in the photoreceptor layers of the retina (the\u00a0Outer Segment & the Outer Nuclear layer) was also apparent.<\/p>\n

These\u00a0findings support the claims of people with ME\/CFS that they experience\u00a0problems related to their vision and its function. They also represent a\u00a0potential marker of ME\/CFS that may aid in its diagnosis.<\/p>\n

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Research abstract: Ophthalmic correlates of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)\/ Chronic\u00a0Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), by\u00a0Nadia Sultana Ahmed. MPhil thesis, University of Leicester [Published online 15 Feb 2018] Myalgic Encephalomyelitis\/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME\/CFS) is a\u00a0chronic, debilitating disorder. With the exception of disabling fatigue,\u00a0there are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4158,696,721],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nadia-s-ahmed","tag-vision-problems","tag-visual-dysfunction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-453","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15748,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}