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Management of Hereditary Angioedema in Childhood
Background: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare disease characterized by recurrent, self-limiting attacks of subcutaneous and submucosal edema. Though a majority of patients will experience symptom onset before 20 years of age, there is a paucity of published literature regarding the management of HAE in children and adolescents. Methods: A comprehensive literature review regarding the manage...
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Background: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare disease characterized by recurrent, self-limiting attacks of subcutaneous and submucosal edema. Though a majority of patients will experience symptom onset before 20 years of age, there is a paucity of published literature regarding the management of HAE in children and adolescents. Methods: A comprehensive literature review regarding the manage...
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Copyright © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 19-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with light-headedness, severe abdominal pain, and intractable nausea and vomiting that began 12 hours earlier. The patient reports previous episodes of abdominal pain and swelling of her hands and feet that have been attributed possibly to food allergies, which have recently become more freq...
متن کاملHereditary angioedema in women
Women with hereditary angioedema (HAE) are more likely to be symptomatic that men. Hormonal factors (puberty, contraception, pregnancy,....) play a significant role in the precipitation or worsening of the condition in women. So, combined contraceptive pills are not indicated and progestogen pill must be preferred. During pregnancy, attack rate can increase (38-48% of women). C1Inhibitor concen...
متن کاملPathophysiology of Hereditary Angioedema.
The genetic deficiency of the C1 inhibitor is responsible for hereditary angioedema (HAE), which is a disease transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. More than 200 point mutations in the C1 inhibitor gene have been found to be associated with HAE. Patients with this disease suffer from recurrent angioedema, which is mediated by bradykinin derived from activation of the contact system. This ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2713-4148
DOI: 10.3345/kjp.2019.01165