L-tryptophan-related eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome possibly associated with a chronic B-lymphocytic leukemia

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 235-238

  Bohme A ^a   Wolter, M ^a   Hoelzer, D ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eosinophilia myalgia syndrome; Eosinophilic fasciitis; Ll tryptophan; Non hodgkin's lymphoma

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISONE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHILIA MYALGIA SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIA-MYALGIA SYNDROME; FASCIITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL, CHRONIC; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 0031771682     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002770050449     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Adame J, Cohen PR (1996) Eosinophilic panniculitis: diagnostic considerations and evaluation. J Am Acad Dermatol 34:229-234
2. Anderson CR, Jenkins D, Tron V, Prendiville JS (1995) Well's syndrome in childhood: case report and review of the literature. J Am Acad Dermatol 33:857-864
3. Campbell DS, Morris PD, Silver RM (1995) Eosinophiliamyalgia syndrome: a long-term follow-up study. South Med J 88:953-958
4. Carr L, Ruther E, Berg PA, Lehnert H (1994) Eosinophiliamyalgia syndrome in Germany: an epidemiologic review. Mayo Clin Proc 69:620-625
5. Chan LS, Hanson CA, Cooper KD (1991) Concurrent eosinophilic fasciitis and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Eosinophilic fasciitis as a paraneoplastic syndrome of T-cell malignant neoplasms? Arch Dermatol 127:862-865
6. Chan MK, Lages W (1982) Eosinophilic fasciitis: visceral involvement. Arch Intern Med 142:2201-220
7. Culpepper RC, Williams RG, Mease PJ, Koepsell TD, Kobayashi JM (1991) Natural history of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. Ann Intern Med 115:437-442
8. Doyle JA, Ginsburg WW (1989) Eosinophilic fasciitis. Med Clin North Am 73:1157-1166
9. Epstein SA, Krahn L, Clauw DJ, Gomes AP, Weigert S, Goldberg RL (1995) Psychiatric aspects of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. Psychosomatics 36:22-25
10. Fleming CJ, Clarke P, Kemmett D (1997) Eosinophilic fasciitis with myelodysplasia responsive to treatment with cyclosporin. Br J Dermatol 136:297-298
11. Freundlich B, Werth VP, Rook AH, O'Connor CR, Schumacher HR, Leyden JL, Stolley PD (1990) L-tryptophan ingestion associated with eosinophilic fasciitis but not progressive systemic sclerosis. Ann Intern Med 112:758-762
12. Hertzman PA, Blevins WL, Mayer J, Greenfield B, Ting M, Gleich GJ (1990) Association of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome with the ingestion of tryptophan. N Engl J Med 322:869-873
13. Hertzman PA, Clauw DJ, Kaufman LD, Varga J, Silver RM, Thacker HL, Mease P, Espinoza LR, Pincus T (1995) The eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome: status of 205 patients and results of treatment 2 years after onset. Ann Intern Med 122:851-855
14. Hoffman R (1982) Diffuse fasciitis associated with aplastic anemia. Medicine 63:373-381
15. Illa I, Dinsmore S, Dalakas MC (1993) Immune-mediated mechanisms and immune activation of fibroblasts in the pathogenesis of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome induced by L-tryptophan. Hum Pathol 24:702-709
16. Juncà J, Cuxart A, Tural C, Ojanguren I, Flores A (1994) Eosinophilic fasciitis and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Eur J Haematol 52:304-305
17. Kaufman LD (1994) The evolving spectrum of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 20:973-994
18. Kaufman LD, Seidman RJ, Gruber BL (1990) L-tryptophan-associated eosinophilic perimyositis. neuritis and fasciitis. Medicine 69:187-199
19. Kaufman LD, Gruber BL, Gregersen PK (1991) Clinical follow-up and immunogenetic studies of 32 patients with eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. Lancet 337:1071-1074
20. Lakhanpal S, Ginsburg WW, Michet CJ, Doyle JA, Moore SB (1988) Eosinophilic fasciitis: clinical spectrum and therapeutic response in 52 cases. Semin Arthritis Rheum 17:221-231
21. Lugassy G, Lishner M, Polliack A (1992) Systemic lupus erythematodes and chronic lymphocytic leukemia: rare coexistence in three patients, with comments on pathogenesis. Leuk Lymphoma 8:243-245
22. Mainetti C, Masouye I, Salomon D, Chavaz P, Saurat JH (1993) L-tryplophan-induced eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome associated with primary cutaneous malignant fibrous histiocytoma and extra-abdominal desmoid tumor. Cancer 72:2712-2715
23. Martin RW, Duffy J, Engel AG, Lie JT, Bowles CA, Mover TP, Gleich GJ (1990) The clinical spectrum of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome associated with L-tryptophan ingestion. Ann Intern Med 113:124-134
24. McKinley KL, Harati Y, Schneider LW (1993) Chronic immune activation in the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. Muscle Nerve 16:947-951
25. Michaels RM (1982) Eosinophilic fasciitis complicated by Hodgkin's disease. J Rheumatol 9:473-476
26. Michet CJ jr, Doyle JA, Ginsburg WW (1981) Eosinophilic fasciitis: report of 15 cases. Mayo Clin Proc 56:27-34
27. Munzert G, Frickhofen N, Bauditz J, Schreiber S, Herrmann F (1997) Concomitant manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus and low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Leukemia 11:1324-1328
28. Naschitz JE, Yeshurun D, Zuckerman E, Rosenbaum M, Misselevitch I, Shajrawi I, Boss JH (1994) Cancer-associated fasciitis panniculitis. Cancer 73:231-235
29. Peltonen J, Varga J, Sollberg S, Uitto J, Jimenez SA (1991) Elevated expression of the genes for transforming growth factor-beta 1 and type VI collagen in diffuse fasciitis associated with the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. J Invest Dermatol 96:20-25
30. Plantin P, Le Leannec N, Delmas A, Le Berre A, Leroy JP (1982) Lésions à type de morphées profondes. premières manifestations d'un lymphome lymphocytique. Ann Dermatol Venereol 123:468-470
31. Schmidt-Riese L, Gudat W, Boekers M, Knop J (1991) Eosinophilic cellulitis - clinical and histological aspects. Hautarzt 42:523-525
32. Schnabel A, Reinhold-Keller E, Wolff HH, Gross WL (1991) Fasziitis-Sklerodermie-Eosinophilie-Syndrom durch Tryptophan. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 116:1180-1185
33. Schnabel A, Reusch M, Christophers E, Gross WL (1994) Eosinophile Fasciitis (Shulman-Syndrom). Internist 35:63-66
34. Scully RE, Mark EJ, McNeely WF, McNeely BU (1990) Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. N Engl J Med 322:252-261
35. Shulman LE (1984) Diffuse fasciitis with eosinophilia: a new syndrome. J Rheumatol 11:569-570
36. Sidi Y, Fadilah R, Pinkhas J, Prokocimer M (1990) Systemic sclerosis and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Postgrad Med J 66:1071-1072
37. Tallman MS, McGuffin RW, Higano CS, Starkebaum G, Collins SJ, Johnston H, Singer JW, Perry DJ, Kunath A (1987) Bone marrow transplantation in a patient with myelodysplasia associated with diffuse eosinophilic fasciitis. Am J Hematol 24:93-99
38. Varga J, Uitto J, Jimenez SA (1992) The cause and pathogenesis of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. Ann Intern Med 116:140-147
39. Varga J, Li L, Jimenez SA (1993) Increased type I collagen gene expression in L-tryptophan associated eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome skin fibroblasts. J Rheumatol 20:1303-1308
40. Watts RA, Merry P (1994) Familial eosinophilic fasciitis and breast cancer. Br J Rheumatol 33:93-94
41. Wood C, Miller AC, Jacobs A, Hart R, Nickoloff BJ (1986) Eosinophilic infiltration with flame figures. A distinctive tissue reaction seen in Well's syndrome and other diseases. Am J Dermatopathol 8:186-193