This unique book offers an in-depth, best-practices guide to diagnosis and management of mastocytosis, a too-often underdiagnosed disease.
Mastocytosis: A Comprehensive Guide will open with a general overview and discussion of mast cell biology, addressing tryptase and other diagnostic markers in detail. Comprehensive diagnostic criteria and classification will follow, with special emphasis on commonly-seen related manifestations: skin disease, pediatric mastocytosis, gastrointestinal indicators, osteoporosis, anaphylaxis, venom and drug allergy, and pregnancy.
Mastocytosis will be an ideal resource for not only the allergist confronted with this condition, but for a growing, multi-disciplinary audience of hematologists, gastroenterologists, dermatologists, pediatricians, primary care providers and other clinicians who encounter this disease in their patients.
Recenzijos
Chapter 1: Mast cell biology in health and disease.-Chapter 2: Clinical
approach to a patient with elevated serum tryptase: implications of acute
versus basally elevated levels. -Chapter 3: Urinary markers of mast cell
disease and their role in diagnosis and management.
Chapter 4: Skin disease
in mastocytosis.
Chapter 5: Pediatric Mastocytosis.
Chapter 6:
Gastrointestinal Manifestations of Systemic Mastocytosis.
Chapter 7:
Systemic Mastocytosis and Bone-Related Events.
Chapter 8:Anaphylaxis in
Mastocytosis .
Chapter 9: Venom Allergy and Management in Mastocytosis.-
Chapter 10: Drug Allergy and Perioperative Management of
Mastocytosis.-Chapter 11: Mastocytosis in Pregnancy.-Chapter 12: KIT and
Other Mutations in Mastocytosis.-Chapter 13: Management of the Hematologic
Disease in Mastocytosis.
Chapter 14: Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Systemic
Mastocytosis.
Chapter 15: International Support and Advocacy for Mast Cell
Disease Patients and Caregivers.
Chapter 16: Mastocytosis: Overview of
Diagnosis and Classification.
Cem Akin, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
