Are general practitioners alert to anaphylaxis diagnosis and treatment?
The results of this study stress the need to promote, within the GP community, continuous medical education programmes regarding adequate diagnosis and treatment of anaphylaxis. Wrong concepts related to anaphylaxis treatment are frequently observed and this is a serious problem since GPs are the front-line doctors in the management of out-patient anaphylactic reactions and therefore it is absolutely mandatory that they can be able not only to accurately diagnose and treat an acute anaphylactic episode but also to make a correct retrospective diagnosis and to advise on the use of epinephrine auto-injectors.
Low levels of tet2-DMC methylation define a subgroup of AML that is highly curable and cannot be identified solely by genetic and cytogenetic analyses.