The Medical University of Wrocław (UMW) is the leader of the project ‘Supportive approaches for the management of paediatric lymphedema education: healthcare professionals’. The project, which aims to help diagnose and treat lymphoedema in children, is funded by the Erasmus + programme.

Lymphoedema is a so-called rare disease that affects no more than five in ten thousand people. It leads to lymphatic stasis, which results in chronic swelling and deformity of the limbs, recurrent infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue and, in some cases, secondary tumours. 

The Wrocław centre receives several, sometimes more than a dozen paediatric patients with this condition every year. Contrary to the name, the problem is therefore not marginal, but many doctors around the world still do not know how to proceed. The consortium, led by UMW, will include scientific institutions from Turkey, Denmark, Italy, France, the UK and the Czech Republic.

Read more: https://www.umw.edu.pl/pl/aktualnosci/umw-liderem-miedzynarodowego-projektu