Table 1. Rare causes of fatigue (usually accompanied by other symptoms) (5).
Type of disease | Rare causes of fatigue |
Endocrine | ● Addison’s disesase (e27) ● Conn syndrome/Cushing syndrome (e28) ● pituitary deficiency (e29) |
Metabolic | ● Gilbert’s disease ● hypercalcemia (e30, e31) |
Infectious | ● tuberculosis ● toxoplasmosis ● brucellosis ● malaria, other tropical diseases ● AIDS, borreliosis/Lyme disease (e32) |
Inflammatory | ● systemic lupus erythematosus (e33) |
Cardiac | ● endocarditis |
Neurological | ● brain tumor (e34) ● multiple sclerosis (e35) ● prior head injury (e36) |
Psychiatric | ● schizophrenia (e37) |