Christine Moffatt

TL;DR: Chronic oedema arising for reasons other than cancer treatment is much more prevalent than generally perceived, yet resources for treatment are mainly cancer-based, leading to inequalities of care.

TL;DR: Community clinics for venous ulcers offer an effective means of achieving healing in most patients with leg ulcers, irrespective of cause and duration of ulceration.

TL;DR: In vivo measurement of interface pressure is encouraged when clinical and experimental outcomes of compression treatment are to be evaluated and methods for measuring the interface pressure and for assessing the stiffness of a compression device in an individual patient are proposed.

TL;DR: Future descriptions of compression bandages should include the subbandage pressure range measured in the medial gaiter area, the number of layers, and a specification of the bandage components and of the elastic property (stiffness) of the final bandage.

TL;DR: Qualitative studies show that patients with lymphoedema experience greater levels of functional impairment, poorer psychological adjustment, anxiety and depression than the general population, and there is some evidence that the adoption of patient‐centred guidelines can improve quality of life in patients with breast‐cancer‐related lymphoingema.