Jose Maria Pereira de Godoy

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of the Medicine School in São José d, CNPq (National Council for Research and Development), Brazil

Publications

• Original Article   
  Pilot Study on the Association of Different Compression Mechanisms to Maintain the Results of Lymphedema Treatment over One Year
  Author(s): Jose Maria Pereira de Godoy*, Renata Lopes Pinto, Lívia Maria Pereira de Godoy and Maria de Fatima Guerreiro Godoy
  
  Background: Lymphedema is a chronic disease that has no cure but with treatment it is possible to reduce the swelling to close to normal. Aim: The objective of this study is to report the association of elastic stockings and low-stretch grosgrain stockings to maintain the results of treatment. Method: The maintenance of the results of lymphedema treatment was evaluated for a period of one year in a pilot study. Eleven female and four male patients with a mean age of 58.4 years who had been treated for lower limb lymphedema at the Clinica Godoy were enrolled in this study in 2014. All patients had clinical stage I primary or secondary leg lymphedema; the volume of the leg had been normalized or close to normalized with clinical treatment. After reducing the edema, the patients began to use Venosan® 30/4.. Read More»