Incidence of and risk factors for paediatric perioperative anaphylaxis in the USA.

Background: Perioperative anaphylaxis is a serious and often life-threatening immediate hypersensitivity reaction. There are few published data on paediatric perioperative anaphylaxis (pPOA). We evaluated the incidence of and risk factors involved in the occurrence of pPOA within a large US national database.

Updates in diagnosis and management of paediatric mastocytosis.

Purpose Of Review: Paediatric mastocytosis is a rare clonal disorder characterized by the overproduction and organ infiltration of mast cells. Symptoms are due to mast cell mediator release. Cutaneous mastocytosis is the most common presentation in children with systemic disease being rare.

Seronegative Mediastinal Coccidioidomycosis as a Novel Presentation of CTPS1 Combined Immunodeficiency.

Inborn errors of immunity may present with susceptibility to coccidioidomycosis. This is especially so in disorders impairing the interferon-γ and interleukin 12 signaling axis. We describe the first case of cytidine nucleotide triphosphate synthetase 1 (CTPS1) deficiency, a combined immunodeficiency impairing lymphocyte proliferation, presenting with coccidioidomycosis.