Here’s the reason for all those indents and marks on your arm after wearing a tight sleeve or leaning your arm into something with texture. Even wrinkles or patterns from fabric will imprint into your [...]
Patients with chronic heart failure often have insufficient renal function, thanks to reduced blood flow. But what about liver dysfunction resulting from the reduced blood flow? […]
If you’ve been told you have a very low ejection fraction, just how long can you expect to live? When the ejection fraction is below 20 to 25 percent, it’s considered to be “severely reduced.” [...]
How long you can survive, once being diagnosed with a very low ejection fraction, depends quite a bit on what you intend on doing about this common affliction. A very low ejection fraction may be [...]
Do elderly people in various age brackets have an associated “normal” ejection fraction? […]
In chronic heart failure can your kidneys suddenly get a lot worse even though the echocardiogram says your cardiac functioning has been stable for several years? […]
So can acute decompensated heart failure occur with higher ejection fractions? In other words, with mild to moderately reduced ejection fraction in the range of 40 to 50%? […]
If you have chronic lower leg edema from a medical condition, you probably already know how easy it is for socks to leave an impression in this area – and the impression sticks around for [...]
You’ve noticed lately and maybe suddenly that both your ankles and calves are swollen with edema, and you’ve recently completed menopause. Looking down and noticing that your ankles and lower calves have a puffier than [...]
Edema in the legs is the result of a process that involves the veins, and a DVT is also the result of a process that involves the veins. So how likely, then, can having edema [...]
You can’t always tell by simply looking at your swollen puffy ankles if the cause is serious or benign. If you’re worried about the bilateral swelling in your ankles, especially if it seems to be [...]
Excess body fat causes edema, but so does chronic heart failure. Here is a comparison in how this swelling looks on the body when it’s caused by either of these two common conditions. When a [...]
Can ejection fraction suddenly get a lot worse (acute heart failure) without filling the lungs with fluid or causing peripheral edema? When people are hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), is this commonly because [...]
It can be alarming to notice that your underwear leaves pronounced indentations in the skin about your waistline. Congestive heart failure often causes edema. Even not-so-tight panties can cause this, and the more patterned the [...]
Have you noticed that your watchband or bracelet leaves indentations in your skin after you remove it? Does this alarm you because you think it’s edema – the same kind of edema that can be [...]
Causes of MILD swelling or edema in both ankles are usually not as worrisome as the causes of severe edema in the ankles. Have you noticed only mild swelling in your ankles? Certainly, serious medical [...]
Discovering you may have edema, thanks to worrisome indentations in your skin caused by socks, is pretty unnerving. That’s because edema can be caused by problems with the heart or kidneys. […]
Is ankle swelling more a function of how old you are than your health? I posed this question to Kathryn Boling, MD, a board certified family medicine practitioner with Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. [...]
Is it edema when you roll down your tight socks and see that big indent in your leg? “I have a memory of my grandmother, who used an elastic band to hold up her stockings,” [...]
Have you noticed that lately your ankles appear swollen and you’re wondering if this is due to middle age? “As we get older we may see swelling of our ankles -- usually near the last [...]
The kind of weight gain that heart problems can cause is not the same that's caused by eating too much. In fact, weight gain from chronic heart failure has absolutely nothing to do with body [...]
Find out what my doctor said about my bilateral, mild ankle edema that doesn’t seem to have an identifiable cause. The bilateral (both ankles) edema I first noticed several years ago was so vague that [...]
What can be causing the “edema” or swelling in both of your ankles when everything’s been ruled out? One day I noticed that my ankle area (both feet) was very mildly puffy (swelling). Did I [...]
A doctor explains what can cause swelling (edema) in both ankles when your heart, liver, kidney and other key tests are normal and you’re not obese. The following can cause swelling (edema) in both (bilateral) [...]
Edema refers to fluid retention such as that in the lower legs that causes swelling, but can this be the ONLY symptom of congestive heart failure? Can a person feel and function just fine otherwise, [...]
Though the site of swollen ankles in elderly people is quite common, this commonality does not rule out a potential life-threatening cause of this symptom. Ankle swelling in an older person can mean a very serious medical [...]
