Acute abdomen due to intestinal angioedema induced by ACE inhibitors: Not so rare?

Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 455-457

  Dobbels, Pieter ^a   Van Overbeke, L ^b   Vanbeckevoort, D ^a   Hiele, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AZ Sint Maarten ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERINDOPRIL;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ANAMNESIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL ANGIOEDEMA; MALE;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; ANGIOEDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LISINOPRIL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERINDOPRIL;

EID: 76049092249     PISSN: 00015644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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