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Overview

Mariana Castells is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and immunology, with significant contributions in subfields such as immunology, immunology and allergy, pharmacology, physiology, and rheumatology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Mast cells and histamine
  • Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions
  • Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Urticaria and Related Conditions
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
  • Contact Dermatitis and Allergies

Mariana Castells has published extensively in the following venues:

  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
  • Allergy
  • Blood

Their recent papers include:

  • "Maintaining Safety with SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Updated Diagnostic Criteria and Classification of Mast Cell Disorders: A Consensus Proposal," 2021, HemaSphere
  • "Practical Guidance for the Evaluation and Management of Drug Hypersensitivity: Specific Drugs," 2020, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
  • "Applying lessons learned from nanomedicines to understand rare hypersensitivity reactions to mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines," 2022, Nature Nanotechnology
  • "Hypersensitivity reactions to chemotherapy: an EAACI Position Paper," 2021, Allergy

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Mariana Castells include:

  • Cem Akin
  • Karin Hartmann
  • Tracy I. George
  • Frank Siebenhaar
  • Jason Gotlib

Best Publications

  • International Consensus on drug allergy.

    P. Demoly;N. F. Adkinson;K. Brockow;M. Castells

  • Standards and standardization in mastocytosis: consensus statements on diagnostics, treatment recommendations and response criteria.

    P. Valent;C. Akin;L. Escribano;M. Födinger

  • Definitions, Criteria and Global Classification of Mast Cell Disorders with Special Reference to Mast Cell Activation Syndromes: A Consensus Proposal

    Peter Valent;Cem Akin;Michel Arock;Knut Brockow

  • Hypersensitivity reactions to chemotherapy: Outcomes and safety of rapid desensitization in 413 cases

    Mariana C. Castells;Nichole M. Tennant;David E. Sloane;F. Ida Hsu

  • Quantitation of histamine, tryptase, and chymase in dispersed human T and TC mast cells.

    L. B. Schwartz;A.-M. A. Irani;K. Roller;M. C. Castells

  • Anaphylaxis during the perioperative period.

    David L. Hepner;Mariana C. Castells

  • General considerations on rapid desensitization for drug hypersensitivity: a consensus statement

    J. R. Cernadas;K. Brockow;A. Romano;W. Aberer

  • Cutaneous manifestations in patients with mastocytosis: Consensus report of the European Competence Network on Mastocytosis; the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; and the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology

    Karin Hartmann;Luis Escribano;Clive Grattan;Knut Brockow

  • Maintaining Safety with SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines.

    Mariana C Castells;Elizabeth J Phillips

  • Evaluation of human peripheral blood leukocytes for mast cell tryptase.

    M C Castells;A M Irani;L B Schwartz

  • Hypersensitivity reactions to mAbs: 105 desensitizations in 23 patients, from evaluation to treatment

    Patrick J. Brennan;Tito Rodriguez Bouza;F. Ida Hsu;David E. Sloane

  • Prevalence of allergy and anaphylactic symptoms in 210 adult and pediatric patients with mastocytosis in Spain: a study of the Spanish network on mastocytosis (REMA).

    D. González de Olano;B. De La Hoz Caballer;R. Núñez López;L. Sánchez Muñoz

  • Cysteinyl leukotriene overproduction in aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease is driven by platelet-adherent leukocytes

    Tanya M. Laidlaw;Tanya M. Laidlaw;Molly S. Kidder;Neil Bhattacharyya;Neil Bhattacharyya;Wei Xing

  • Updated Diagnostic Criteria and Classification of Mast Cell Disorders: A Consensus Proposal

    Peter Valent;Cem Akin;Karin Hartmann;Ivan Alvarez-Twose

  • Diagnosis and management of drug hypersensitivity reactions

    Antonino Romano;Maria J. Torres;Mariana Castells;Maria L. Sanz

  • Mastocytosis: current concepts in diagnosis and treatment.

    L Escribano;C Akin;M Castells;A Orfao

  • Diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis in precision medicine.

    Mariana Castells

  • Hypersensitivity reactions to therapeutic monoclonal antibodies: Phenotypes and endotypes

    Ghislaine Annie C. Isabwe;Ghislaine Annie C. Isabwe;Marlene Garcia Neuer;Leticia de las Vecillas Sanchez;Donna-Marie Lynch

  • Safety, Costs, and Efficacy of Rapid Drug Desensitizations to Chemotherapy and Monoclonal Antibodies

    David Sloane;Usha Govindarajulu;Jacob Harrow-Mortelliti;William Barry

  • Diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous mastocytosis in children: practical recommendations.

    Mariana Castells;Dean D. Metcalfe;Luis Escribano

  • Precision medicine in allergic disease-food allergy, drug allergy, and anaphylaxis-PRACTALL document of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

    Antonella Muraro;Robert F. Lemanske;Mariana Castells;Maria J. Torres

  • Mouse mast cell gp49B1 contains two immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motifs and suppresses mast cell activation when coligated with the high-affinity Fc receptor for IgE.

    H R Katz;E Vivier;M C Castells;M J McCormick

Frequent Co-Authors

Cem Akin
Cem Akin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Karin Hartmann
Karin Hartmann University Hospital of Basel
Lawrence B. Schwartz
Lawrence B. Schwartz Virginia Commonwealth University
Knut Brockow
Knut Brockow Technical University of Munich
Jason L. Hornick
Jason L. Hornick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter Valent
Peter Valent Medical University of Vienna
Massimo Triggiani
Massimo Triggiani University of Salerno
Patrizia Bonadonna
Patrizia Bonadonna University of Verona
Elizabeth J. Phillips
Elizabeth J. Phillips Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Ursula A. Matulonis
Ursula A. Matulonis Harvard University

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