DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2021.v09i05.005

Pages: 488-489

Angioneurotic edema is most often hereditary and due to a deficiency of C1 inhibitor (C1 INH). It manifests by recurrent episodes of subcutaneous and / or submucosal edema, non inflammatory and non pruritic, of the face and extremeties or by pseudo-occlusive, spontaneously reversible abdominal seizures. We report the case of a 19-year-old patient who presented a tongue edema which resolved spontaneously, he has in his history, several episodes of reversible face edema, the Exploration of the classical complement pathway during this episode shows a normal C3 and a lower C4.