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Psychiatric aspects of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
S A Epstein1, L Krahn, D J Clauw
1Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Psychosomatics
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
The eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) is a rare systemic disease caused by presumably contaminated L-tryptophan. Thirteen outpatients with EMS were found to have a high degree of depression, anxiety, and difficulty adjusting to illness. Pre-EMS history of major depression but not EMS severity predicted poor adjustment to illness.