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Lipoatrophy

Disease Lipid DisordersLipodystrophy

Lipoatrophy is the term describing the localized loss of fat tissue.

 


Lipoatrophy is a generalized, probably autosomal recessive, lipoatrophy associated with the eventual development of diabetes mellitus, hepatomegaly, increased growth of bones and a hyperlipidemia.
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Lipoatrophy
Small depressions in the subcutaneous tissues just under the skin that form when a person keeps injecting insulin into the same spot.

Lipoatrophy: Loss of fat under the skin resulting in small dents. Lipoatrophy may be caused by repeated injections of insulin in the same spot.
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Others primarily suffer from lipoatrophy with fat loss under the skin with complaints of prominent veins on the arms and legs, sunken cheeks and decreased gluteal (buttock) size.

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Lawrence-Seip syndrome --
lipoatrophy
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Loss of subcutaneous fat, which may be total, congenital, and associated with hepatomegaly, excessive bone growth, and insulin-resistant diabetes.

More common: Headache, GI disturbances, rash, lipoatrophy
Less common: Peripheral neuropathy, pancreatitis, lactic acidosis, hepatomegaly with steatosis, lipodystrophy
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May be loss of fat in face and limb and buttock wasting (lipoatrophy) or increase in fat in abdomen and upper back (buffalo hump) and breast enlargement. May be cosmetically distressing and socially disabling.

characterized by an aged appearance at birth (neonatal progeroid appearance); growth delays before and after birth (prenatal and postnatal growth retardation); and deficiency or absence of the layer of fat under the skin (subcutaneous lipoatrophy), ...

little depression in the skin (lipoatrophy)
skin thickening (lipohypertrophy)
red, swelling, itchy skin (injection site reaction).

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See also: Atrophy, Dystrophy, Fusion, Infections, Fever

Disease Lipid DisordersLipodystrophy

 
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