Other Standards

These are other Standards of Care for Lipedema we know about. Please Contact Us with any others.

Published

• Canada 2019: Liposuction for the Treatment of Lipedema: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines

  • Liposuction for the treatment of lipedema: a review of clinical effectiveness and guidelines. Ottawa: CADTH; 2019 Jun. (CADTH rapid response report: summary with critical appraisal).

• Europe 2020: JWC Lipoedema: a paradigm shift and consensus
  Bertsch T, Erbacher G, Elwell R. Lipoedema: a paradigm shift and consensus. J Wound Care. 2020 Nov 1;29(Sup11b):1-51. doi: 10.12968/jowc.2020.29.Sup11b.1. PMID: 33170068. Available from: https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/pb-assets/JOWC/JWC_Consensus_Lipoedema-1601660077727.pdf
  See also Related Publications below.

• Europe 2017/2020: First International Consensus Conference on Lipedema with the purpose of reviewing current European guidelines and the literature as part of the First International Congress on Lipedema in Vienna, Austria, June 9 to 10, 2017.

  • Sandhofer M, Hanke CW, Habbema L, et al. Prevention of Progression of Lipedema With Liposuction Using Tumescent Local Anesthesia: Results of an International Consensus Conference. Dermatol Surg. 2020;46(2):220-228. doi:10.1097/DSS.0000000000002019

• Germany

  • 2024: German Society for Phlebology and Lymphology eV: S2K-Lipedema, 5.0, 2024
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddg.15513 (English version, abridged)
    https://register.awmf.org/de/leitlinien/detail/037-012 (German version)

  • 2017: S1 guidelines: Lipedema Reich-Schupke S, Schmeller W, Brauer WJ, et al. S1 guidelines: Lipedema. J Dtsch Dermatol Ges. 2017;15(7):758-767 (English version)

• Netherlands 2016: First Dutch guidelines on lipedema using the international classification of functioning, disability and health.

  • Halk AB, Damstra RJ. First Dutch guidelines on lipedema using the international classification of functioning, disability and health. Phlebology. 2016;12:0268355516639421 Full-text

• Spain 2018: Documento de consent lipedema 2018.

  • Alcolea JM, Alonso Alvarez B, Arroyo Bielsa A, et al. Documento de Consenso Lipedema 2018. Paper presented at: 33rd National Congress of the Spanish Society of Aesthetic Medicine (SEME) 2018; Malaga, Spain.

• United Kingdom: Best Practice Guidelines: The management of lipoedema.

  • Coppel T, Cunneen J, Fetzer S, et al. Best Practice Guidelines: The management of lipoedema. Wounds UK. 2017;13(1).

Under Development

• Australia

• Bertsch T, Erbacher G. Lipoedema – myths and facts Part 1. Phlebologie 2018; 47: 84-92

• Bertsch T, Erbacher G. Lipoedema – myths and facts Part 2. Phlebologie 2018; 47: 120–126

• Bertsch T, Erbacher G. Lipoedema – myths and facts Part 3. Phlebologie 2018; 47: 188–197

• Bertsch T, Erbacher G. Lipoedema – myths and facts Part 4. Phlebologie 2019; 48: 47–56

• Bertsch T, Erbacher G, Corda D et al. Lipoedema – myths and facts, Part 5. European Best Practice of Lipoedema – Summary of the European Lipoedema Forum consensus. Phlebologie 2020; 49: 31-49

  • Letter to the Editor regarding Lipoedema – myths and facts, Part 1 and Part 5. European Best Practice of Lipoedema – Summary of the European Lipoedema Forum consensus. Phlebologie 2020; 49: 31–49 by Karen L. Herbst, Linda Anne Kahn, Emily Iker, Rachelle Crescenzi, Chuck Ehrlich, Tami Faris, Thomas Wright, Lindy McHutchison, Jaime Schwartz, Erik Lontok, Michael S. Schwartz, Molly Sleigh, Steven M. Dean, John R. Bartholomew, Polly Armour, Margarita Correa-Perez, Kathleen H. Lisson, Ingrid A. Harten, Nicholas Pennings, Ethan Larson, Andrea Brennan, Joachim Zuther https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-1217-0961

  • Response to the Letter to the Editor regarding Lipoedema – myths and facts, Part 1 and Part 5. European Best Practice of Lipoedema – Summary of the European Lipoedema Forum consensus. Phlebologie 2020; 49: 31–49 by Tobias Bertsch, Gabriele Erbacher https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-1250-3334

  • Response from the Lipedema Foundation: Phlebologie Letter — Lipedema Foundation https://www.lipedema.org/phlebologie-letter