peripheral oedema

Mild peripheral oedema has been observed in a few patients.

We also found that peripheral oedema was more common among our female patients, but we did not identify the cause of this effect.

Causes of peripheral oedema can be broadly divided into local and systemic causes.

His JVP is not elevated and he has no peripheral oedema.

Peripheral oedema has been associated with moclobemide.

Measuring and representing peripheral oedema and its alterations.

Cardiovascular examination showed mild dependent peripheral oedema.

This study shows that alcohol consumption is an important independent predictor of peripheral oedema in patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

How alcohol predisposes to peripheral oedema is not clear, but it is not through hypoproteinaemia.

Drug treatment may be useful for an underlying condition (including peripheral oedema), or for ameliorating neuropathic pain.

Peripheral oedema (swelling of lower legs)

Right heart failure produces a raised jugular venous pressure wave, hepatic enlargement and peripheral oedema.

Peripheral oedema (hypoalbuminaemia)

Her diarrhoea decreased with improved appetite and weight gain, a rising serum albumin, and resolution of her peripheral oedema.

Another possible explanation is that alcohol impairs renal sodium excretion; the resulting sodium retention could contribute to the development of peripheral oedema.

Patients with signs of sodium and water retention, i.e. peripheral oedema, pulmonary oedema or an elevated jugular venous pressure, should receive diuretic therapy.

As oedematous patients with bronchitis tend to be hypercapnic, we have studied the relation between alcohol consumption and peripheral oedema in patients with bronchitis.

This may be due to weight gain or peripheral oedema (especially in pregnancy), or to a specific condition such as acromegaly, hypothyroidism or scleroderma and psoriasis.

This may take several forms, including dependent peripheral oedema, pulmonary oedema, effusions such as pleural effusion or ascites, or generalised capillary leakage (anasarca).

As PAH progresses, ankle oedema and later right-sided congestion (elevated jugular venous pressure, ascites, hepatomegaly, peripheral oedema) occur.

Clinical history: symptoms of heart failure syndrome Breathlessness (dyspnoea), fatigue and ankle swelling (peripheral oedema) are the hallmark clinical symptoms of heart failure.

Heart failure can be predominantly left ventricular, with pulmonary congestion and dyspnoea, or predominantly right ventricular, with elevated venous pressure, peripheral oedema and hepatic congestion.

Other: Very common: Influenza-like symptoms (fever, headache, back pain, chills, myalgia, asthenia, and anorexia), cough, rhinitis, malaise, sweating, insomnia, oedema or peripheral oedema, and somnolence.

The development of peripheral oedema is a major determinant of a poor prognosis in patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema and, when unexplained by other medical conditions, is called cor pulmonale.

The most common side effects are headache, fatigue, arthralgia, myalgia, injection site bruising, injection site pain, peripheral oedema, dizziness, muscle spasms, nausea, contusion, diarrhoea, bone marrow disorder, influenza-like illness, insomnia and pruritus.