Today’s blog focuses on a study by researchers from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in the US. It is entitled, Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Edema in Lipedema Revealed by Noninvasive 3T MR Lymphangiography and was published in the peer-reviewed journal Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in May 2022. This is a prospective…
There’s an interesting study by researchers from Texas and Arizona in the US that I would like to discuss this week. The paper is entitled Lymphatic function and anatomy in early stages of lipedema and it was published in Obesity, the research journal for the Obesity Society, in April 2022. …
This week, we’ll be focusing on a study by a group of researchers from Australia. The title of their paper is Effects of a low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet on reported pain, blood biomarkers and quality of life in patients with chronic pain: A pilot randomised clinical trial. It was published in…
Today, I’d like to tell you about a study done by a group of surgeons from a reconstructive and aesthetic surgery center in Germany. The aim of this study was to provide further insights into the characteristics of lipedema. They also wanted to provide a baseline prior to surgery in…
There is a study performed by a group of researchers from Egypt entitled Vacuum-Cavitation Therapy Versus Liposuction on Lipoedema in Female that I wanted to discuss with you today. It was forwarded to us by one of our Flash Briefing mini-podcast listeners. This paper was published in the Bulletin of…
This week’s blog post will focus on a study by a group of researchers from Switzerland. It’s entitled, Indocyanine green lymphography as a novel tool to assess lymphatics in patients with lipedema, and was published in the peer-reviewed periodical Microvascular Research in December 2021. This study aimed to describe the…
Today let’s focus on a study that came out of Turkey. It’s entitled “What do lymphedema patients expect from a treatment and what do they achieve? A descriptive study”. This study is interesting to me because it aims to examine the treatment needs and benefits from the patients’ perspective. Even…
An interesting study was performed by a group of surgeons in Italy that was published in the peer-reviewed journal World Journal of Nuclear Medicine in 2020. It’s entitled, Rest/stress intradermal lymphoscintigraphy in diagnosis of lipedema. The lead author is Dr. Tartaglione. They propose using rest/stress lymphoscintigraphy to diagnose lipedema in…
Today, I’d like to discuss a study that came out of Switzerland and was published in the peer-reviewed periodical Journal of Pain Research in September 2021. The paper is titled: Common and Contrasting Characteristics of the Chronic Soft-Tissue Pain Conditions Fibromyalgia and Lipedema. The authors proposed to compare and contrast…
For today, I’d like to tell you about a paper entitled Lymphedema Treatment Decreases Pain Intensity in Lipedema. This study was performed by a group of researchers in Szeged, Hungary. It was published in the peer-reviewed journal Lymphology in 2011. This study aimed to measure the impact of traditional treatment…