[Treatment of hereditary angioedema]

Hereditary angioedema is a rare familial disease caused by the defect of complement C1esterase inhibitor (C1-INH). It is characterized by recurrent acute edema of the extremities, the face, the respiratory tract and the gastrointestinal tract. Acute laryngeal edema usually produces laryngeal obstruction. Two cases have been treated since 1986, one of them had been admitted for forty-five times because of recurrent acute laryngeal edema. Investigations showed two families with a high incidence of this disease. Laboratory examination showed a remarkable decrease of C1-INH and C4. Tracheotomy is indicated in patients with laryngeal edema. Great success was achieved in two patients treated with danazol.

[Pathologic morphology of the indented tongue]

This paper use the methods of light microscope, electronmicroscope to observe the appearance of pathology and morphology of the convex and concave parts of the indented tongue edge, and examine the histology of normal tongue edge as a contrast. The authors consider that the main pathological changes of the indented tongue are: Thinning of the epithelial layer; change of rough endoplastic retica; reducing in tonofilaments; edema of cells and tissues, and decreasing in elastic fibers and collagenic fibers, etc.