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Suren Soghomonyan, suren.soghomonyan@osumc.edu

SS provided anesthesia, performed a literature search, and wrote the manuscript. QF participated in patient management, searched literature, and wrote the manuscript. SB provided general supervision, participated in patient management, searched literature, and wrote the manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Keywords:

  • Science & Technology
  • Life Sciences & Biomedicine
  • Medicine, General & Internal
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • angioedema
  • quincke&apos
  • s edema
  • anesthesia complications
  • lisinopril
  • laryngeal mask airway

Case Report: Post-operative Angioedema After a Laryngeal Mask Airway Application

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Journal Title:

FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE

Volume:

Volume 8

Publisher:

, Pages 566100-566100

Type of Work:

Article | Final Publisher PDF

Abstract:

Angioedema with macroglossia is a rare complication of anesthesia. We present a clinical case of post-operative development of angioedema presenting as macroglossia in a patient receiving chronic therapy with lisinopril, who developed symptoms in the early post-operative period following surgery in a lateral position, when a laryngeal mask airway was used. Possible mechanisms of angioedema and macroglossia development in our patient are discussed along with potential underlying predisposing mechanisms and available therapeutic approaches.

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© 2021 Soghomonyan, Fleming and Bhandary.

This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/rdf).
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