A 30-year-old white male with hereditary angioedema developed substernal chest pain with multiple arterial stenoses at coronary angiography. Histopathologic studies of the fibromembranous thickening removed from the left coronary artery at the time of the revascularization procedure revealed an inflammatory lesion compatible with an arteritis. The significance of this association in the spectrum of immunologically-mediated disorders in hereditary angioedema is discussed.
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