...Young Rok Ham; Hae Ri Kim; Hong Jae Jeon; Yoo Hyung Kim; Jae Woong Jeon; Sarah Chung; Dae Eun Choi; Ki Ryang Na; Kang Wook Lee Background: Idiopathic edema (IE) is a common clinical syndrome. Designing treatment plans for IE is problematic because of the difficulty in assessing volume status. We...

...Hiroko Suzuki; Masaki Fujimaki; Haruyuki Nakane; Ikuo Saito; Eiko Takeshita; Takao Saruta Captopril (SQ14,225), an orally administered angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, was given to 8 patients with idiopathic edema, in order to study the role of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system...

...Dino Docci; Fausto Turci; Giovanni Salvi Idiopathic edema is a condition characterized by diurnal weight gain and intermittent swelling, affecting adult females without evidence of any other condition known to cause sodium retention. It has been suggested that an alteration in the aldosterone...