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Lipedema thigh skin shows significantly increased dermal interstitial spaces (~46% vs 42% in controls, p=0.003) and abnormal vessel phenotype (microangiopathy) concentrated in hydrostatic-pressure-exposed areas, with elevated tissue sodium proposed as a mechanism of endothelial glycocalyx damage leading to endothelial inflammation and microangiopathy.
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- Interstitial Fluid in Lipedema and Control Skin — Allen et al. (2020) — refines · cross sectional · 2020
The article directly addresses tissue-level mechanisms in lipedema (interstitial fluid accumulation, microangiopathy, endothelial inflammation via sodium-glycocalyx hypothesis) using histological analysis of skin biopsies with quantitative
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