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Postural Hypotension Associated with Nonelastic Pantyhose during Lymphedema Treatment

The case of a 72-year-old female patient with elephantiasis is reported. The patient was submitted to two surgeries to remove the edema. After surgery, the leg again evolved to elephantiasis and eventually she was referred to the Clinica Godoy for clinical treatment. Intensive treatment was carried...

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Autores principales: Pereira de Godoy, Jose Maria, Zucchi Libanore, Daniel, Guerreiro Godoy, Maria de Fatima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4106055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25105033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/536126
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author Pereira de Godoy, Jose Maria
Zucchi Libanore, Daniel
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description The case of a 72-year-old female patient with elephantiasis is reported. The patient was submitted to two surgeries to remove the edema. After surgery, the leg again evolved to elephantiasis and eventually she was referred to the Clinica Godoy for clinical treatment. Intensive treatment was carried out (6 to 8 hours per day) and the patient lost more than 70% of the limb volume within one week. After this loss, the volume was maintained using grosgrain compression pantyhose for 24 hours per day. During the return appointment, the patient suffered from systemic hypotension (a drop of more than 30 mmHg within three minutes) while she was standing after removing the stocking. A further investigation showed that the symptoms only appeared when the stocking was worn for 24 hours. Thus, the patient was advised to use the stocking only during the day thereby avoiding the symptoms of hypotension.
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spelling pubmed-41060552014-08-07 Postural Hypotension Associated with Nonelastic Pantyhose during Lymphedema Treatment Pereira de Godoy, Jose Maria Zucchi Libanore, Daniel Guerreiro Godoy, Maria de Fatima Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report The case of a 72-year-old female patient with elephantiasis is reported. The patient was submitted to two surgeries to remove the edema. After surgery, the leg again evolved to elephantiasis and eventually she was referred to the Clinica Godoy for clinical treatment. Intensive treatment was carried out (6 to 8 hours per day) and the patient lost more than 70% of the limb volume within one week. After this loss, the volume was maintained using grosgrain compression pantyhose for 24 hours per day. During the return appointment, the patient suffered from systemic hypotension (a drop of more than 30 mmHg within three minutes) while she was standing after removing the stocking. A further investigation showed that the symptoms only appeared when the stocking was worn for 24 hours. Thus, the patient was advised to use the stocking only during the day thereby avoiding the symptoms of hypotension. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4106055/ /pubmed/25105033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/536126 Text en Copyright © 2014 Jose Maria Pereira de Godoy et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Postural Hypotension Associated with Nonelastic Pantyhose during Lymphedema Treatment
title_fullStr Postural Hypotension Associated with Nonelastic Pantyhose during Lymphedema Treatment
title_full_unstemmed Postural Hypotension Associated with Nonelastic Pantyhose during Lymphedema Treatment
title_short Postural Hypotension Associated with Nonelastic Pantyhose during Lymphedema Treatment
title_sort postural hypotension associated with nonelastic pantyhose during lymphedema treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4106055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25105033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/536126
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