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1/🧵 Let’s learn about Ace inh-induced angioedema
 
His lips & tongue swelled up hours after taking a blood pressure med he’d been on 10 years - lisinopril.

📍What’s the treatment?
📍Is it an allergy?
📍What’s a common thought error?

(Pic w Perm - trigger warning tweets 2 & 4)
2/ Angioedema is potentially life-threatening
 
It’s very scary to see the tongue & lips swelling up so much and the airway compromised.

The patients are watched in the ICU so that intubation and even tracheostomy can occur emergently if required.

What’s the Dz Mechanism?
3/ Is ACE-inh induced Angioedema an allergy?
 
NO! It’s not an IGE mediated allergic reaction.

💥 Pro Tip:
People can get angioedema from allergies, but they would be very itchy, and my patient was not itching at all.

That's because it's mediated by a buildup of bradykinin.
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⭐️FIVE Little Allergy/Immunology Lessons from 5 Big Days on Consults ⭐️ @mghaifellows @MGHAllergy. #Urticaria #Angioedema #vaccine reactions eosinophilia and #drugallergy /1
ONE-To treat acute urticaria (hives), antihistamines should be nonsedating and scheduled (not diphenhydramine PRN). Allegra/fexofenadine and Zyrtec/cetirizine have large therapeutic windows and are used safely at 4+ times the daily allergic rhinitis dose/2
TWO-Angioedema in an adult without skin itching/hives/rash—check if they on an ACE inhibitor! Although ~10% get it w/in 30d, many happen after years of uneventfully being on it /3 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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While on the topic on #Angioedema with @EMBoardBombs

It was mentioned about tPA causing angioedema. It is scary and happened to me. I didn't know about it until it happened to me.

Follow along for a short #medtweetorial case report with some tips. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Image
The most dreaded adverse effect of tPA, hemorrhagic conversion of an ischemic stroke.

But there is another scary, unusual & potentially life-threatening adverse effect of tPA. ANGIOEDEMA

It usually affects the side of the tongue ipsilateral to the stroke.
The patient in the picture presented with left side weakness/facial droop and his stroke was on the right brain. Hence the left-sided tongue swelling.

What is Angioedema?

It is an acute well-demarcated swelling involving the deeper layers of skin of the skin.
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THREAD from the new #bradykinin research (pre-print) from 🇳🇱:

"We propose that the severity of the disease and many deaths are due to a local vascular problem due to activation of B1 receptors on #endothelial cells in the lungs."

#COVID19 #kinins

preprints.org/manuscript/202…
➡️"the B1 receptor on endothelial cells is upregulated by proinflammatory #cytokines

➡️ Without #ACE2 acting as a guardian to inactivate the ligands of B1, the lung environment is prone for local vascular leakage leading to #angioedema"

...

#bradykinin #COVID19
➡️"... and might explain the typical #CTscans and the feeling of people that they drown.

➡️In some pt., this is followed by a clinical worsening of disease around day 9 due to the formation antibodies directed against the spike (S)-antigen of #SARSCoV2 that binds to #ACE2"
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