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ReviewJournal of hematology & oncology2011

Mast cell activation disease: a concise practical guide for diagnostic workup and therapeutic options.

Gerhard J Molderings, Stefan Brettner, Jürgen Homann, Lawrence B Afrin

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Review in Journal of hematology & oncology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07657507 (Prospective Study of Symptoms in People With and Without Joint Hypermobility), which is not on this map. Cited by 74 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07657507 not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Prospective Study of Symptoms in People With and Without Joint Hypermobility

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorClarkson UniversityRan2026 to 2036Enrolled100ConditionsHypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

74 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gerhard J MolderingsInstitute of Human Genetics, University Hospital of Bonn, Germany. molderings@uni-bonn.de
Stefan Brettner
Jürgen Homann
Lawrence B Afrin

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mast cell activation disease comprises disorders characterized by accumulation of genetically altered mast cells and/or abnormal release of these cells' mediators, affecting functions in potentially every organ system, often without causing abnormalities in routine laboratory or radiologic testing. In most cases of mast cell activation disease, diagnosis is possible by relatively non-invasive investigation. Effective therapy often consists simply of antihistamines and mast cell membrane-stabilising compounds supplemented with medications targeted at specific symptoms and complications. Mast cell activation disease is now appreciated to likely be considerably prevalent and thus should be considered routinely in the differential diagnosis of patients with chronic multisystem polymorbidity or patients in whom a definitively diagnosed major illness does not well account for the entirety of the patient's presentation.

Indexed as

AnimalsHistamine AntagonistsHumansMast CellsMastocytosisHistamine Antagonists

Identifiers

PMID21418662
PMCPMC3069946

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