DEAR DR. ROACH: My brother is 74 and has edema in his legs and feet. He doesn’t exercise; he basically just sleeps and plays games on his computer. His bedroom is upstairs, and he struggles ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My brother is 74 and has edema in his legs and feet. He doesn’t exercise; he basically just sleeps and plays games on his computer. His bedroom is upstairs, and he struggles ...

Treatment includes compression stockings and sometimes compression devices, but these won’t work well unless your brother exercises and keeps his feet above the level of his heart, ideally for at ...

While furosemide is sometimes used in treating heart failure when there is swelling due to high pressures in the heart, it has no role in long-term treatment of edema due to leaky veins.

Dr. Roach: My brother is 74 and has edema in his legs and feet. He doesn't exercise; he basically just sleeps and plays games on his computer. His bedroom is ...

Multiple eye injections have been approved to treat diabetic macular edema. Most of these medicines are called anti-VEGF therapies because they block a substance in the eye called VEGF.

DEAR R.H.: Edema is swelling, and it's a very common finding in the legs, particularly as we get older. Fluid retention occurs when the forces pushing fluid out (mostly vein pressure) are higher ...