He was still feeling chest pain but had a clean bill of health, a sad reminder that even in a field as highly developed as cardiology, some symptoms retain their essential mystery.
The third domain, symptoms, retains the original questions in the FIQ regarding pain, stiffness, lack of restorative sleep, poor energy, anxiety, and depression and adds four additional questions relating to tenderness, memory, balance, and environmental sensitivity.
A 12 year old Irish male paediatric cystic fibrosis patient experienced intermittent culturing of P. aeruginosa from the oropharyngeal region, indicating chronic infection of the sinuses despite absence of symptoms, retaining good lung function, and normal bronchoscopy and bronchoalveloar lavage.
Three specific depressive symptoms were retained in the pre-frail model, namely, items 7 (feel happy), 13 (feel full of energy) and 15 (think that others are better off).
On the other hand, four specific symptoms were retained in the frailty model, items 2 (dropped activities and interests), 3 (feel life is empty), 13 (feel full of energy) and 15 (think others are better off).
Furthermore, abdominal pain and rectal bleeding are the two symptoms that retained their association with the cancer 180 days before diagnosis.
The boy was in otherwise good health; he had no abnormal psychological symptoms and retained a normal degree of consciousness throughout the acute phase of the disease.
The improved or centralised symptoms must be retained in a neutral standing position.
Repeat attendances with the same symptom were also retained if the subsequent consultation also occurred in ⩾5% of cases or controls.
However, diarrhoea was considered to be an important clinical symptom, so the item was retained in the Symptoms & Function subscale on clinical grounds.
