Dysthymic disorder is a chronic form of depression.
The chronic form of the disease discoid lupus erythematosus also is characterized by atrophy.
J. Carol Goodman says she suffers from a chronic form of Lyme disease.
In contrast, the chronic form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis develops insidiously and not in a fixed time.
A different mechanism seems to have operated in some patients, both in America and in Great Britain, who suffered from a chronic form of leukemia.
Kim Uffleman, 49, of Rivervale, N.J., in Bergen County, suffers from the chronic form of the disease, which she contracted 17 years ago.
Three million to four million Americans have a more advanced, chronic form of the disease, and the study does not apply to them.
And Immunex, after setbacks in clinical trials, recently gave up trying to fashion its arthritis drug, Enbrel, into a treatment for the chronic form of heart failure.
She developed frozen shoulder a chronic form of acute shoulder pain which left her unable to get a full night's sleep.
In addition, a new drug therapy just approved in the US offers help for symptoms in the most chronic form of the condition.
West African, or Gambian, trypanosomiasis is a slower-developing chronic form of the disease caused by T. brucei gambiense.
