A Rare Case of Captopril-Induced Parotid Gland Enlargement

The use of captopril has been linked to scarce adverse events characterized by parotid glands enlargement. We report a case of captopril-induced parotid enlargement in a patient with uncontrolled hypertension. A 57-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) with an acute state of heada...

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Autores principales: Khan, Ahmed, Alshehri, Malak, Babkier, Ahad, Alahmad, Kutaiba, Siam, Wisam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9973669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36865960
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34339
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author Khan, Ahmed
Alshehri, Malak
Babkier, Ahad
Alahmad, Kutaiba
Siam, Wisam
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description The use of captopril has been linked to scarce adverse events characterized by parotid glands enlargement. We report a case of captopril-induced parotid enlargement in a patient with uncontrolled hypertension. A 57-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) with an acute state of headache. The patient has a background of untreated hypertension for which he was managed in the emergency department (ED) by the administration of captopril 12.5 mg sublingually to control his blood pressure. Shortly after the drug administration, he started to experience bilateral painless enlargement of parotid glands that resolved a few hours after the drug was withdrawn.
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spelling pubmed-99736692023-03-01 A Rare Case of Captopril-Induced Parotid Gland Enlargement Khan, Ahmed Alshehri, Malak Babkier, Ahad Alahmad, Kutaiba Siam, Wisam Cureus Emergency Medicine The use of captopril has been linked to scarce adverse events characterized by parotid glands enlargement. We report a case of captopril-induced parotid enlargement in a patient with uncontrolled hypertension. A 57-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) with an acute state of headache. The patient has a background of untreated hypertension for which he was managed in the emergency department (ED) by the administration of captopril 12.5 mg sublingually to control his blood pressure. Shortly after the drug administration, he started to experience bilateral painless enlargement of parotid glands that resolved a few hours after the drug was withdrawn. Cureus 2023-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9973669/ /pubmed/36865960 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34339 Text en Copyright © 2023, Khan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Khan, Ahmed
Alshehri, Malak
Babkier, Ahad
Alahmad, Kutaiba
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A Rare Case of Captopril-Induced Parotid Gland Enlargement
title A Rare Case of Captopril-Induced Parotid Gland Enlargement
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title_fullStr A Rare Case of Captopril-Induced Parotid Gland Enlargement
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