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"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.
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Dr. Afrin does an excellent job at providing enough detail in the specific case studies while at the same time not drowning the reader in complicated chemistry. Afrin likes to use what he refers to as "$400 medical words," but the medical dictionary included in the book was able to explain any
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terms I wasn't familiar with. I would recommend this book to anyone who suspects that they have a mast cell disorder. Show Less