21st March 2025
Leonard B. Weinstock, Renee M. Nelson and Svetlana Blitshteyn (2023). This is a small study that explores the comorbidity of psychiatric conditions and MCAS. The study includes 8 patients with both a psychiatric and MCAS diagnosis and highlights how, treating MCAS improved the psychiatric symptoms. The study highlights how psychiatric patient's refractory to standard therapy that also have systemic symptoms should be assessed for MCAS. It calls for more studies to investigate the prevalence of MCAS in psychiatric patients not responding to standard treatments to get a better picture of this association and the potential therapeutic benefits for the patients.
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