Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology
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Ann. Allergy Asthma Immunol. · Aug 2008
Increasing hospitalizations due to angioedema in the United States.
Angioedema may occur in patients taking angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. With the more prevalent use of this class of medications in the United States, it is not known whether angioedema hospitalizations have increased nationally in recent years. ⋯ Angioedema has become the dominant allergic disorder that results in hospitalization in the United States. Angioedema hospitalizations have a distinct epidemiologic pattern that differs from that observed in other atopic disease hospitalizations.