Lisinopril, a medication widely used to treat high blood pressure and other cardiovascular disorders, sometimes may trigger small bowel angioedema, suggests a case report. While rare, physicians should recognize angioedema as a possible side effect of lisinopril, and provide timely diagnosis and adequate treatment in the presence of acute abdominal pain.
A new strategy that uses small protein fragments with an unconventional structure may be used to target many different disease-related proteins, according to French researchers. The team at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has already developed a molecule that targets kallikrein, the protein that causes hereditary angioedema, and another targeting…
Patients who develop angioedema symptoms after receiving stroke medication, and are not responsive to first-line angioedema therapy, may benefit from Firazyr (icatibant), a recent case report suggests. “Icatibant for the treatment of orolingual angioedema following the administration of tissue plasminogen activator” was published in The American Journal…
In rare cases, patients with autoimmune diseases or immune cell proliferation may experience deficiencies in C1 esterase inhibitor and develop acquired angioedema. Researchers at the Reading Hospital in Pennsylvania and Mayo Clinic Hospital in Minnesota have described the case of a leukemia patient who developed acquired angioedema, manifesting as recurrent…
Medications used to treat hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases may sometimes trigger angioedema, a case report of a woman with small bowel angioedema suggests. While rare, the report highlights the importance of recognizing these treatment-related side effects for timely diagnosis and adequate treatment. The case report, “…
Some patients taking Brilinta (ticagrelor) for a condition called acute coronary syndrome might develop hypersensitivity to the medication that manifests as angioedema and sudden breathing problems, a new case report shows. The circumstances of a 69-year-old African man who developed angioedema shortly after receiving Brilinta was reported in the journal Case…
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