[Clinical case of tongue angioedema caused by enalapril]

Abstract

Reporting a case of adverse pharmacological reaction to Enalapril ingestion with severe respiratory obstruction, as outcome of lingual edema owing to tongue edema. The incidence of this condition among the population consumers of this drug accounts more or less to 1 per thousand. The cases appear at the fifth life's decade in the black population, even at the first month of treatment is when the adverse course appears and can produce a severe respiratory obstruction.