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Demonstration of an aberrant mast-cell population with clonal markers in a subset of patients with "idiopathic" anaphylaxis.
Blood - 1 Oct 2007
Akin Cem, Scott Linda M, Kocabas Can N, Kushnir-Sukhov Nataliya, Brittain Erica, Noel Pierre, Metcalfe Dean D
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic anaphylaxis remains a perplexing disorder in which existing prophylactic therapy is inadequate. In this prospective study, we sought to determine whether patients with idiopathic anaphylaxis might have evidence for a clonal disorder of mast cells related to mastocytosis and for which novel targeted therapies might be considered. We report 12 patients with "idiopathic" anaphylaxis who did not exhibit...
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