Sclerema, scleroderma, and scleroedema are terms used to describe various conditions in the newly born with swelling and induration of areas of skin and the underlying subcutaneous tissues. Confusion, described by Macgregor (1960) as 'chaotic', has arisen from a loose use of the terms. McIntosh, Waugh, and Ross (1938) explain the historical origins of the confusion and mention the tendency for ...

Regular physical activity improves glucose tolerance and decreases adiposity. Our aim was to investigate the effects of exercise training on subcutaneous (inguinal) and visceral (parametrial) adipose tissue in rats that were fed a chow diet (13% fat) or made insulin resistant by a high-fat diet (60% fat). Sprague-Dawley rats performed 4 wk of voluntary wheel running or were kept as sedentary co...

Factors that influence low birth weight at term may also be associated with subcutaneous fat patterning in later life. This hypothesis was investigated in a comparative (retrospective) cohort study. The subjects, born in Cardiff between 1975 and 1977, were of mean age 15.7 years. Cases (low birth weight (< 2500 g) at term) were matched with controls (normal birth weight (3000-3800 g) at term) f...

Wound complications such as infection, hematoma and seroma formation are major causes of delayed recovery and prolonged hospital stay after cesarean delivery. In addition to surgical technique, suture materials are implicated in these complications. Subcutaneous fat tissue is particularly susceptible to developing such problems because of its poor vascular supply. To investigate any difference ...

We report the case of an infant with diffuse subcutaneous fat necrosis following birth asphyxia who had hypercalcemia and the rare complication of venous calcification. The clinical and radiologic findings resolved over 5 months. The disease is characterized by the presence of painless subcutaneous nodules, mainly over bony prominences, possibly associated with hypercalcemia and calcification. ...

Widespread panniculitis has already been described in association with acute pancreatitis (Chiari, 1883; Hansemann, 1889; Jenckel, 1914; Zaaijer, 1935; Scarselli, 1954; Kushner and Szanto, 1958; Cohen, 1959; Swerdlow, Berman, Gibbel, and Valaitis, 1960), with subacute pancreatitis (Blauvelt, 1946; Mayoral, Gompertz, and Young, 1959), and with carcinoma of pancreas (Berner, 1908; Hegler and Wohl...

Anthropometric measurements were made on 4,952 mothers and their neonates from a Peruvian urban population. Based on age-specific percentiles, the mothers were separated into categories of short and tall stature, high and low fat, and high and low muscle. The study indicates that: (1) tall and short mothers characterized by similar subcutaneous fat and upper arm muscle area (whether high or low...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to determine the effects of high-frequency current therapy on the abdominal obesity levels of young women. [Subjects] Twenty-two women with abdominal obesity were randomly allocated to either an experimental group (n 1 = 10) or a control group (n 2 = 12). [Methods] The experimental group subjects received high-frequency current therapy for the abdominal regio...

The purpose of our study was to evaluate the potential inhibition of adipose tissue mobilization by lactate. Eight male subjects (age, 26. 25 +/- 1.75 yr) in good physical condition (maximal oxygen uptake, 59.87 +/- 2.77 ml. kg-1. min-1; %body fat, 10.15 +/- 0.89%) participated in this study. For each subject, two microdialysis probes were inserted into abdominal subcutaneous tissue. Lactate (1...

The authors examined the association between self-reported experiences of discrimination and subtypes of abdominal fat (visceral, subcutaneous) in a population-based cohort of African-American and Caucasian women. Prior studies examining associations between discrimination and abdominal fat have yielded mixed results. A major limitation of this research has been the reliance on waist circumfere...