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Lipedema: an overview of its clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of the disproportional fatty deposition syndrome - systematic review.
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Early diagnosis and treatment are mandatory for this disorder otherwise gradual enlargement of fatty deposition causes impaired mobility and further comorbidities like arthrosis and lymphatic insufficiency.Abstract:
Lipedema is a disproportionate, symmetrical fatty swelling characterized by pain and bruising existing almost exclusively among women. We undertook a systematic review of the available literature about lipedema, given the lack of knowledge and little evidence about this disorder especially among obesity experts. Diagnosis of lipedema is usually based on clinical features. Symmetrical edema in the lower limbs with fatty deposits located to hips and thighs usually appears at puberty and often affects several members of the same family. Main disorders considered for differential diagnosis are lymphedema, obesity, lipohypertrophy and phlebedema. Treatment protocols comprise conservative (decongestive lymphatic therapy) and surgical (liposuction) approaches. Early diagnosis and treatment are mandatory for this disorder otherwise gradual enlargement of fatty deposition causes impaired mobility and further comorbidities like arthrosis and lymphatic insufficiency.read more
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Water-jet-assisted liposuction for the treatment of lipedema: Standardized treatment protocol and results of 63 patients.
Thomas Witte,Mehran Dadras,Falk-Christian Heck,Marion Heck,Brigitte Habermalz,Stefan Welss,Marcus Lehnhardt,Björn Behr +7 more
TL;DR: Liposuction in water-jet-assisted technique using the presented treatment protocol is an efficient method of operative treatment of early-stage lipedema patients leading to a marked decrease in symptom severity and need for conservative treatment.
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Ketogenic diet as a potential intervention for lipedema.
L. Keith,C.A. Seo,C. Rowsemitt,M. Pfeffer,Monika M. Wahi,M. Staggs,Joanna Dudek,Barbara A. Gower,M. Carmody +8 more
TL;DR: The scientific evidence of effectiveness of adopting a KD by patients to alleviate clinical features associated with LI, including excessive and disproportionate lower body adipose tissue (AT) deposition, pain, and reduction in quality of life (QoL) is examined.
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Ist die Differenzialdiagnostik des Lipödems mittels hochauflösender Sonografie möglich
TL;DR: Einleitung: Die aktuelle deutsche Leitlinie zur Behandlung des Lipödems empfiehlt neben der Therapie mit flachgestrickten Kompressionsmaterialien und manueller Lymphdrainage auch die Liposuktion.
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Quality of life, its factors, and sociodemographic characteristics of Polish women with lipedema.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate factors related to the quality of life and describe selected sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of women with lipedema in Poland and find that depression severity mediated this relationship.
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S1-Leitlinie Lipödem.
Stefanie Reich-Schupke,Wilfried Schmeller,Wolfgang Justus Brauer,Manuel E. Cornely,Gabriele Faerber,Malte Ludwig,Gerd Lulay,Anya Miller,Stefan Rapprich,Dirk Frank Richter,Vivien Schacht,Klaus Schrader,Markus Stücker,Christian Ure +13 more
TL;DR: Die vorliegende überarbeitete Leitlinie zum Lipödem wurde unter der Federführung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phlebologie (DGP) erstellt and finanziert.
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Anne H. Child,Kristiana Gordon,Pip Sharpe,Glen Brice,Pia Ostergaard,Steve Jeffery,Peter S. Mortimer +6 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that lipedema is a genetic condition with either X‐linked dominant inheritance or more likely, autosomal dominant inheritance with sex limitation, and appears to be a condition almost exclusively affecting females, presumably estrogen‐requiring as it usually manifests at puberty.