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ReviewBlood advances2025

Systemic mastocytosis: current status and challenges in 2024.

Celalettin Ustun, Fatma Keklik Karadag, Michael A Linden, Peter Valent, Cem Akin

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Review in Blood advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Management of skeletal-related events and fracture prevention in systemic mastocytosis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Celalettin UstunDivision of Hematology, Oncology and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.ORCID 0000-0001-6896-6213
Fatma Keklik KaradagDivision of Hematology, Izmir City Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0001-6078-5944
Michael A LindenDivision of Hematopathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.ORCID 0000-0002-0830-5453
Peter ValentDivision of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-0456-5095
Cem AkinDivision of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.ORCID 0000-0001-6301-4520

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractSystemic mastocytosis (SM) is a rare disease and has had significant discoveries in its biology, prognostication, and management in the past 2 decades. The latest update of the World Health Organization classification and the new International Consensus Classification are current standards in the diagnosis and prognostication of SM. In clinical practice, SM can be divided into 2 main categories: nonadvanced SM (nonAdvSM) and advanced SM (AdvSM). The integration of clinical signs and symptoms as well as bone marrow morphologic, immunophenotypic, and molecular results is required to diagnose SM variants. In the modern era, data with KIT inhibitors (ie, avapritinib) suggest prolongation of survival in AdvSM. Although this is encouraging progress, and we now have effective drugs for managing both patients with indolent SM and AdvSM, there are remaining challenges in SM. For example, optimal initial treatment in certain patient subsets, such as SM with an associated hematologic neoplasm (SM-AHN), remains under debate (eg, treatments targeting AHN or SM, monotherapy, or combinations). Prospective studies evaluating drugs with different mechanisms of action are needed for such patients. This review provides an updated overview of SM, including the latest methods for diagnosis, patient classification based on their prognosis, and management according to the most significant clinical trials, covering both patients with nonadvSM and AdvSM.

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Mastocytosis, SystemicDisease ManagementHumansPrognosis

Identifiers

PMID39853317
PMCPMC12052678

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