2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2013.04.022
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Prevalence and clinical features of lymphedema in patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis

Abstract: Lymphedema is a rare complication of LAM and may be associated with axial lymphatic involvement or dysfunction rather than severe cystic lung destruction. The combined multimodal treatments used here effectively resolved or controlled LAM-associated lymphedema.

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“…Lymphedema has been described as secondary to LAM in 3.5% (8/228) of patients in one registry, though all cases with the association had sporadic LAM, not TSC‐LAM [Hoshika et al, ]. The mechanism underlying this correlation is unknown.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lymphedema has been described as secondary to LAM in 3.5% (8/228) of patients in one registry, though all cases with the association had sporadic LAM, not TSC‐LAM [Hoshika et al, ]. The mechanism underlying this correlation is unknown.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Congenital lymphangiectasia was not the cause of the symptoms in our patient, as this condition always presents in infancy and is fatal. Chylothorax and lower extremity lymphedema can develop in adult patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) (4,5). However, in our patient, the lymphedema developed after thoracic duct ligation, and thin wall cystic lung lesions, characteristic of LAM or renal angiomyolipomas, were absent, suggesting that LAM was unlikely to be the cause of the generalized lymphedema.…”
Section: Anterior View Posterior Viewmentioning
confidence: 54%
“…3 Arbeiten (7 %) betrachteten sekundäre Lymphödeme bei nichtgynäkologischen Erkrankungen (Kopf-Hals-Karzinom, Melanom, Lymphangioleiomyomatose). 2 Arbeiten beschäftigten sich mit Infektionen als Folgeerkrankung des Lymphödems, 1 Arbeit mit Krankheitsfolgen von primären Lymphödemen [44][45][46][47][48][49].…”
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