Lower extremity edema
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DDx
Cardiovascular
- Congestive heart failure (CHF) (right-sided)
- Pericardial effusion
- Pericarditis
- Tricuspid regurgitation
- Tricuspid stenosis
- Pulmonic stenosis
- Cor pulmonale
- Venous insufficiency (most common)
- Venous obstruction
- Cirrhosis
- Low albumin (nephrotic syndrome, malnutrition, protein-losing enteropathy)
- Cellulitis
- Premenstrual fluid retention
- Drugs (vasodilators, eg, calcium channel blockers, salt-retaining medications, eg, NSAIDs, thiazolidinediones)
- Musculoskeletal (Baker’s cyst, gastrocnemius tear, compartment syndrome)
- Lymphatic obstruction
- Preeclampsia-eclampsia
- Myxedema
- Lymphatic filariasis
- Eosinophilic fasciitis
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DDx
Cardiovascular
- Congestive heart failure (CHF) (right-sided)
- Pericardial effusion
- Pericarditis
- Tricuspid regurgitation
- Tricuspid stenosis
- Pulmonic stenosis
- Cor pulmonale
- Venous insufficiency (most common)
- Venous obstruction
- Cirrhosis
- Low albumin (nephrotic syndrome, malnutrition, protein-losing enteropathy)
- Cellulitis
- Premenstrual fluid retention
- Drugs (vasodilators, eg, calcium channel blockers, salt-retaining medications, eg, NSAIDs, thiazolidinediones)
- Musculoskeletal (Baker’s cyst, gastrocnemius tear, compartment syndrome)
- Lymphatic obstruction
- Preeclampsia-eclampsia
- Myxedema
- Lymphatic filariasis
- Eosinophilic fasciitis
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