Patients with compartment syndrome will have an injury that is associated with limb edema. Patients who are awake and alert can accurately describe the pain and loss of function that is commonly ...

Dear Doctors: What is compartment syndrome, and how does it happen? I developed this following an embolism from hip replacement surgery. I had eight days on wound vacuum-assisted closure, plus ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Swollen ankles and feet due to edema, or fluid build-up, can be caused by minor or major conditions, such as injury, pregnancy, standing or sitting for a ...

Abdominal compartment syndrome happens when bleeding or swelling in your abdomen creates dangerously high pressure. This pressure can lead to multiple organ failure. Abdominal compartment syndrome is ...

A 42-year-old man with no past medical history and prescribed no medications presented to the ED with complaints of pain and swelling in his left lower leg during the last 48 hours. The patient ...

EAGAN, Minn. — Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jordan Hicks required hospitalization when he developed a condition called compartment syndrome following an injury on Sunday. Hicks, 31, had been a ...

The Colts are going to be without rookie wide receiver Michael Pittman for a while. Head coach Frank Reich confirmed that Pittman had surgery on Sunday night after being diagnosed with compartment leg ...

Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jordan Hicks was hospitalized on Sunday night after their win over the New Orleans Saints when he developed compartment syndrome in his right leg, head coach Kevin ...