TY - JOUR T1 - Hemifacial angioedema following alteplase for acute stroke JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 272 LP - 273 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2018-002112 VL - 19 IS - 3 AU - John-Ross D Clarke AU - John-Paul Ayala Y1 - 2019/06/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/19/3/272.abstract N2 - A 61-year-old African–American man presented 1 hour after the onset of left-sided limb weakness and facial numbness. He was taking an ACE inhibitor for hypertension. One year before, he had developed an ischaemic left basal ganglia stroke, having presented 48 hours after the onset of symptoms. He had been medically managed with aspirin and high-intensity statin only and had recovered with no residual deficit.On this second presentation he met the criteria for administration of alteplase (recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, tPA). … ER -