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#316 Lower Extremity Edema with The Curbsiders

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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What Is the Path of Physiology?

Doctor paul williams: When you think about edema and general bascly, your body's waging a war. There's hydrostatic pressure, so everything's trying to force stuff out of the vessels,. Then you have incotic pressure trying to sort of suck everything back in. And when you have excess flothin intersticium, that is by enlarge, adema. But anything that would cause mation at a local sight, whether it be infection or lactic acidosis can lead to this condition.

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