Fatal anaphylaxis following a hornet sting in a yellow jacket venom-sensitized patient with undetected monoclonal mast cell activation syndrome and without previous history of a systemic sting reaction

Affiliations

¹ Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany. Electronic address: simon.blank@tum.de.
² Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Kliniken an der Paar, Aichach, Germany.
³ Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
⁴ Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany.
⁵ Institute of Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
⁶ Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁷ Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany; Department of Dermatology and Allergy Centre, Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁸ Pathology Augsburg, Clinic for Pathology and Cytology, Augsburg, Germany.

Simon Blank et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2020 Jan.

. 2020 Jan;8(1):401-403.e2.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2019.06.021. Epub 2019 Jul 3.

¹ Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany. Electronic address: simon.blank@tum.de.
² Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Kliniken an der Paar, Aichach, Germany.
³ Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
⁴ Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany.
⁵ Institute of Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
⁶ Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁷ Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany; Department of Dermatology and Allergy Centre, Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁸ Pathology Augsburg, Clinic for Pathology and Cytology, Augsburg, Germany.

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