Mast cell activation syndrome: Importance of consensus criteria and call for research

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Haematology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• ³ Allergy Unit, Verona University Hospital, Verona, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Dermatology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Dermatology and Allergy Centre Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
• ⁶ Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ⁷ Division of Allergic Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• ⁸ III Medizinische Klinik, Universitäts-Medizin Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.
• ⁹ Stanford Cancer Institute/Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.
• ¹⁰ Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
• ¹¹ Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
• ¹² Department of Haematology, Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Guys Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
• ¹³ Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• ¹⁴ Institute of Pathology, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
• ¹⁵ Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Institute of Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
• ¹⁷ LBPA CNRS UMR8113, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France.
• ¹⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.