Patients with compartment syndrome will have an injury that is associated with limb edema. Patients who are awake and alert can accurately describe the pain and loss of function that is commonly ...

Dear Doctors: What is compartment syndrome, and how does it happen? I developed this following an embolism from hip replacement surgery. I had eight days on wound vacuum-assisted closure, plus ...

A 42-year-old man with no past medical history and prescribed no medications presented to the ED with complaints of pain and swelling in his left lower leg during the last 48 hours. The patient ...

Abdominal compartment syndrome happens when bleeding or swelling in your abdomen creates dangerously high pressure. This pressure can lead to multiple organ failure. Abdominal compartment syndrome is ...

EAGAN, Minn. — Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jordan Hicks required hospitalization when he developed a condition called compartment syndrome following an injury on Sunday. Hicks, 31, had been a ...

Some say a supplement is the culprit in a rash of compartment syndrome cases. August 23, 2010 -- An Oregon hospital is running tests to determine if a muscle-enhancing supplement may have caused 13 ...

The Colts are going to be without rookie wide receiver Michael Pittman for a while. Head coach Frank Reich confirmed that Pittman had surgery on Sunday night after being diagnosed with compartment leg ...

Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jordan Hicks was hospitalized on Sunday night after their win over the New Orleans Saints when he developed compartment syndrome in his right leg, head coach Kevin ...