Relapsing-remitting is a medical term for a pattern of disease in which symptoms cyclically worsen, a relapse, and then improve to a less severe but not fully resolved state, a partial remission. It is most closely associated with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, in which patients have unpredictable episodes of worsening symptoms separated by periods of remission that can last months or years, but the same pattern is also used to describe other conditions, including palindromic rheumatism, catatonia, lupus, certain mental disorders and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.
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Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
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Relapsing-remitting is a medical term referring to a presentation of disease symptoms that become worse over time (relapsing), followed by periods of less severe symptoms that do not completely cease (partial remitting).
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