lipedema

In recent years growing awareness of lipedema has come from internet sources.

As lipedema progresses, patients become increasingly heavy in the lower body.

There is currently no known uniform medical procedure to cure lipedema.

It is associated with such conditions as lymphedema, lipedema, and myxedema.

Medical treatment is designed primarily to address the secondary lymphedema part of the lipedema patient's condition.

Possibly this extraordinary fat tissue accumulation turns out to be an advanced stage of a medical condition called Lipedema.

Lipedema of the legs: a syndrome characterized by fat legs and edema.

It should be remembered that lipedema is a childhood disease that progresses throughout adulthood.

Obese lipedema patients who undergo bariatric surgery lose fat primarily from the waist up.

Some patients progress to lipo-lymphedema, a condition where lipedema and lipo-lymphedema both occur.

Lipedema can be underdiagnosed due the difficulty in differentiating it from other edemas and obesity.

The word lipedema has multiple spellings.

At this time, only Germany and The Netherlands have standardized ways of diagnosing lipedema.

Compression prevents recurrence of lymphedema, and in some lipedema patients can reduce the pain of lipedematous fat.

Lipedema / Dercum's Disease Differentiation These conditions may co-exist.

However, symmetrical enlargement of both lower limbs, from waist to ankles (i.e. gynoid fat) is a hallmark of lipedema.

Dunn's goal with Cure Lipedema is to spread awareness and get girls diagnosed earlier in addition to promoting research and to raise funds to find a cure.

Cure Lipedema is committed to finding a cure for women suffering from Lipedema, a disorder of the adipose tissue.

Greuner uses a liposuction like procedure which removes dysfunctional fat cells using only a small incision in the leg, and has started a national public awareness campaign on lipedema treatment.

Dunn is a World Wide Ambassador for Cure Lipedema a charitable organization she co-founded with Dr. Karen Herbst.

Lipedema can also mimic lymphedema, however in lipedema there is characteristic sparing of the feet beginning abrubtly at the medial malleoli (ankle level).

Dept. of Lymphangiology, Hospital of Mooseburg, Moosberg, Germany. (2000) The Spectrum of Lipedema.

In November 2012 the UK's Health service the NHS first listed lipedema as the abnormal build-up of fat cells in the legs, thighs and buttocks.

Although first identified in the United States, at the Mayo Clinic in 1940, lipedema is barely known in that country - to physicians or to the patients who have the disease.

Some tools including tables and a flow chart that can be used to diagnose lipedema and other edemas can be found in the article "Edema: Diagnosis and Management."