Never Bet Against Occam: Mast Cell Activation Disease and the Modern Epidemics of Chronic Illness and Medical Complexity

by Lawrence B. Afrin

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997319615
• ISBN13: 9780997319613
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Sisters Media, LLC
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"