A Potentially Fatal Outcome of Oral Contraceptive Therapy: Estrogen-Triggered Hereditary Angioedema in an Adolescent

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is characterized by recurrent angioedema attacks with no urticaria. This disease has a high mortality due to asphyxia. Level of complement component 4 (C4), C1 esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) level and function, and genetic mutations determine different endotypes of HAE. Clin...

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Autores principales: Berkay Balkancı, Uğur, Demirkol, Demet, Yeşiltepe Mutlu, Gül, Birben, Esra, Soyer, Özge, Yılmaz, Özlem, Saçkesen, Cansın
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2023
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34565130
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2021.2021.0053

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34565130
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2021.2021.0053

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