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BOOK
Title Never bet against Occam : mast cell activation disease and the modern epidemics of chronic illness and medical complexity / Lawrence B. Afrin, M.D
Imprint Bethesda, MD : Sisters Media, LLC, [2016]
©2016

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Teknik och medicin  616.7 engelska    IN TRANSIT +1 HOLD  ---
Edition 1st ed
Descript v, v, 456, 2 pages illustrations 26 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references
"In 2008 Dr. Afrin started coming to understand that a newly recognized type of mast cell disease, now called mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), was the underlying diagnosis in many patients he was seeing who were each suffering large assortments -- quite different from one patient to the next -- of chronic multisystem inflammatory illnesses of unclear cause. Dr. Afrin soon gained experience that MCAS is far more prevalent than the only mast cell disease previously known to medicine (the rare disease of mastocytosis) and that most MCAS patients, once accurately diagnosed, can eventually find significantly helpful medications targeted at the disease"--Page 4 of cover
Subject Chronic Disease
Mastocytosis
Mast cell disease.
Mast cells.
Classmark 616.77
ISBN/ISSN 9780997319613
0997319615
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