We describe four Italian adolescents in whom a persistent, debilitating fatigue appeared after therapeutic ingestion of products containing L-tryptophan and subsequent to the development of a transient rise in eosinophil count and severe myalgia (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome-EMS). Their clinical picture was indistinnuishable from that of the socalled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A chronic fatigue may occur after diverse triggering agents and it represents the peculiar clinical evolution of these four paediatric cases of EMS.
CHRONIC FATIGUE - A PECULIAR EVOLUTION OF EOSINOPHILIA-MYALGIA-SYNDROME FOLLOWING TREATMENT WITH L-TRYPTOPHAN IN 4 ITALIAN ADOLESCENTS / R., Priori; Conti, Fabrizio; F. L., Luan; C., Arpino; Valesini, Guido. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS. - ISSN 0340-6199. - 153:(1994), pp. 344-346. [10.1007/s004310050150]
CHRONIC FATIGUE - A PECULIAR EVOLUTION OF EOSINOPHILIA-MYALGIA-SYNDROME FOLLOWING TREATMENT WITH L-TRYPTOPHAN IN 4 ITALIAN ADOLESCENTS
CONTI, FABRIZIO;VALESINI, Guido
1994
Abstract
We describe four Italian adolescents in whom a persistent, debilitating fatigue appeared after therapeutic ingestion of products containing L-tryptophan and subsequent to the development of a transient rise in eosinophil count and severe myalgia (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome-EMS). Their clinical picture was indistinnuishable from that of the socalled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A chronic fatigue may occur after diverse triggering agents and it represents the peculiar clinical evolution of these four paediatric cases of EMS.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
