Avaliação da fadiga

Last reviewed: 12 Aug 2025
Last updated: 03 Jun 2025

Summary

Differentials

Common

  • Distúrbio de insônia
  • Depression
  • Anemia ferropriva
  • Deficiência de ferro sem anemia
  • Insuficiência cardíaca crônica
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Hipotireoidismo
  • Hipertireoidismo
  • Infecção por EBV
  • Gripe (infecção por influenza)
  • COVID longa
  • Fadiga induzida por medicamentos
  • Dependência alcoólica
  • Dependência de drogas
  • Infecção pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV)
  • Isquemia miocárdica aguda
  • Fibrilação atrial
  • Doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica (DPOC)
  • Tuberculose
  • Toxoplasmose
  • Acidente vascular cerebral (AVC)
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Uncommon

  • Síndrome da apneia/hipopneia obstrutiva do sono (SAHOS)
  • Síndrome da hipoventilação na obesidade (SHO)
  • Síndrome das pernas inquietas
  • Doença celíaca
  • Doença de Addison
  • Hipopituitarismo
  • Síndrome mielodisplásica
  • Leucemia mieloide crônica
  • Linfoma não Hodgkin
  • Linfoma de Hodgkin
  • Infecção por citomegalovírus
  • Doença de Lyme
  • Brucelose
  • Doença renal crônica
  • Esclerose múltipla
  • Doença de Parkinson
  • Fibromialgia
  • Deficiência de vitamina D (osteomalácia)
  • Lúpus eritematoso sistêmico
  • Cirrose biliar primária
  • Malignidade subjacente (não linfoma)
  • Encefalomielite miálgica/síndrome da fadiga crônica (EM/SFC)
  • Fadiga crônica idiopática
  • Toxicidade por metais pesados
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Contributors

Authors

Bernard Favrat, MD
Bernard Favrat

Associate Professor

University of Lausanne

Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine

Lausanne

Switzerland

Disclosures

BF has received study grants and lecture/consultant fees from Vifor Pharma and Pierre Fabre Médicament. BF is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Jacques Cornuz, MD, MPH
Jacques Cornuz

Associate Director

University Hospital of Lausanne

Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine

Lausanne

Switzerland

Disclosures

JC is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

Acknowledgements

Dr Bernard Favrat and Dr Jacques Cornuz would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Idris Guessous and Dr Baptiste Pedrazzini, previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

IG is an author of a reference cited in this topic. BP declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Chris Martin, MD

General Practitioner

Dr Moulds and Partners

Laindon Health Centre

Laindon

Essex

UK

Disclosures

CM has received an NHS salary greater than 6 figures USD. CM declares that he has no competing interests.

Benjamin Natelson, MD

Professor of Neurosciences

UMDNJ

New Jersey Medical School

Newark

NJ

Disclosures

BN declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence​. Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome: diagnosis and management. Oct 2021 [internet publication].Full text

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention​. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: clinical overview of ME/CFS. May 2024 [internet publication].Full text

Cornuz J, Guessous I, Favrat B. Fatigue: a practical approach to diagnosis in primary care. CMAJ. 2006 Mar 14;174(6):765-7.Full text  Abstract

Hamilton W, Watson J, Round A. Investigating fatigue in primary care. BMJ. 2010 Aug 24;341:c4259. Abstract

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