Pain and lymphoedema

Filariasis and lymphoedema

Among the causes of lymphoedema (LE), secondary LE due to filariasis is the most prevalent. It affects only a minority of the 120 million people infected with the causative organisms of lymphatic filariasis (LF), Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi/timori, but is clustered in families, indicating a genetic basis for development of this pathology. The majority of infected individuals develop ...

Mattos Lymphoedema and delusional parasitosis

The false and fixed belief of being infected/infested by one or many different living organisms, such as insects or parasites, is not a common condition. Although several cases have been recorded since the end of the nineteenth century, it was the Swedish psychiatrist Karl-Axel Ekbom who first systematically studied the presenile syndrome of delusional dermatozoid parasitic infestation in 1938 ...

Lymphoedema-distichiasis syndrome.

To cite: Marques NS, Miranda A, Barros S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-213651 DESCRIPTION A 29-year-old woman with a history of renal cysts, hypertension and lymphoedema-distichiasis syndrome, was referred to ophthalmology, with bilateral blurred vision, hyperaemia and ocular pain, developed over months. The patient had no positive ...

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Management of secondary lymphoedema.

Lymphoedema is a chronic, progressive condition. There is no cure but it is most easily managed with early recognition and therapy; those who do not have treatment tend to worsen rapidly and advanced disease is more difficult to treat than early disease. Surgery for lymphoedema is often regarded as a last resort but traditional excisional techniques that have been slightly modified for modern p...