Refeeding oedema in patients with anorexia nervosa is a known but yet under-reported and poorly-understood condition. We illustrate this condition in a 19-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa who developed bipedal oedema after she was started on nutritional therapy. It is important to be aware of the differential diagnoses of oedema in such cases, which includes heart failure and previous diuret...

Chronic oedema is a long-term condition as its title suggests. It causes disruption to patients’ lives and can be costly to treat if managed inappropriately. Leg ulcers in patients with chronic oedema occur more frequently than acknowledged by many healthcare professionals. This client group requires a specifi c management plan if the oedema is to be controlled and the ulceration healed. LEG UL...

Mammary skin thickening shown on the mammogram was measured in 220 patients with non-inflammatory breast cancer, and the mean skin oedema was derived by taking the mean of five measurements from separate sites on the breast (upper part, lower part, medial part, lateral part, and areola) after subtracting the corresponding figures from the opposite (normal) breast. The prevalence of appreciable ...

Background The current “gold standard” CMR sequence for assessing myocardial oedema following STEMI is controversial. T2 Short-Tau Inversion Recovery (T2-STIR) is in widespread clinical use but can lack robustness. Steady state free precession oedema imaging (SSFP/ACUT2E) has emerging data to support it as a more reproducible method for oedema assessment. A novel T2 mapping method is also avail...

An uncontrolled increase in intracranial pressure (ICP), often due to cerebral oedema, is the most common cause of death in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. Different types of oedema coexist in TBI patients: vasogenic oedema and cytotoxic oedema. Vasogenic oedema occurs with the extravasation of fluid into the extracellular space following blood brain barrier (BBB) disruption. Cytotoxic o...

UNILATERAL OEDEMA OF REVERSAL REACTION (RR) IN BORDERLINE LEPROSY Sir, Oedema is a well recognized feature in leprosy, especially during reactions. But oedema in only one extremity or on one side of the fa ce is a rare, though documented occurrence . In 1 983 while I was a volunteer doctor at the Nonsombun Leprosy Hospital in Khon Kaen, Thai land, 1 had 2 patients in whom 1 observed this intere...

We hypothesised that the oedema fluid-to-plasma protein (EF/PL) ratio, a noninvasive measure of alveolar capillary membrane permeability, can accurately determine the aetiology of acute pulmonary oedema. 390 mechanically ventilated patients with acute pulmonary oedema were enrolled. A clinical diagnosis of acute lung injury (ALI), cardiogenic pulmonary oedema or a mixed aetiology was based on e...

Acute pulmonary oedema in pregnant women is an uncommon but life-threatening event. The aims of this review are to address why pulmonary oedema occurs in pregnant women and to discuss immediate management. We performed a systematic literature search of electronic databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library, using the key words obstetrics, pregnancy, acute pulmonary oedema, preg...

Massive ovarian oedema is a benign pathology occurs due to partial torsion and blockage of lymphatic drainage the ovary. Commonly presents with pain abdomen on off or abnormal uterine bleeding. Here we report case 15 years old girl spotting per vaginum for 45 days. On examination, revealed 28 weeks size mass arising from pelvis. further evaluation blood works, proceeded surgical management. His...

A number of medical conditions and medications can cause localized or generalized oedema. Bilateral peripheral oedema is infrequently described with olanzapine and is rarely seen as the side effect during pregnancy. A case of olanzapine-induced peripheral oedema in a 40 year old pregnant woman with a diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder is discussed. The exact mechanism of olanzapine to caus...