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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Home-Based Intermittent Pneumatic Compression Therapy: The Impact in Chronic Leg Lymphedema in Patients Treated for Gynecologic Cancer.

Yoon Kim, Seonghee Kim, Ji Young Lim, Chea Min Hwang, Myoung-Hwan Ko, Ji Hye Hwang

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yoon KimDepartment of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Seonghee KimResearch Institute for Future Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Ji Young LimDepartment of Physical Therapy, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Konyang University, Daejeon 35365, Korea.
Chea Min HwangResearch Institute for Future Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul 06351, Korea.
Myoung-Hwan KoDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Jeonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju 54907, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0566-3677
Ji Hye HwangDepartment of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul 06351, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-8176-3354
Samsung Medical Center · KRJeonbuk National University · KRKonyang University · KR

Funding

Korea Health Industry Development Institute HI15C1529
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We conducted a prospective study of cancer patients to investigate the efficacy, quality of life, satisfaction, and safety of a home-based intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) device during the maintenance phase of lower extremity lymphedema. This device has a unique mode designed to mimic the manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) technique and thereby gently facilitate lymphatic draining of proximal extremities. Thirty patients with stage 3 chronic secondary unilateral leg lymphedema in the maintenance phase underwent IPC and conventional compression therapy for 4 weeks at home. The participants were guided to use 1 h course (30 min of MLD-mimicking mode and 30 min of conventional mode) of IPC device twice a day for 4 weeks. We assessed the patients' limb-volume measurement, quality of life (QOL), and satisfaction four times. There were no significant time-dependent interactions in the inter-limb volume difference ratio (V

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home therapyintermittent pneumatic compression (IPC)lymphedemaquality of lifeself-management

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PMID35455817
PMCPMC9032801
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