Tissue homeostasis can also depend on the maintenance of body functions like digestion, respiration, urination, and lymphatic control. The health of the skin is typically important, along with normal skeletal support, muscle movement, and responses between the nervous system and muscles.
Practice Essentials. Angioedema is the swelling of deep dermis, subcutaneous, or submucosal tissue due to vascular leakage.Acute episodes often involve the lip, eyes, and face (see the image below); however, angioedema may affect other parts of body, including respiratory and gastrointestinal (GI) mucosa.
Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare genetic disorder. In fact, it's thought that HAE only affects between 1 in 10,000 and 1 in 50,000 people in the world. HAE can cause attacks of swelling in any part of the body, but the most common locations include the abdomen, face, feet, genitals, hands and throat. The swelling in an HAE attack is sometimes painful.