[Diagnosis and treatment of the idiopathic edema syndrome]

Idiopathic edema is a little studied syndrome occurring in middle-aged women. Edemas are not associated with cardiac, liver or kidney pathology and are frequently caused by psychic trauma, infection or pregnancy. The disease pathogenesis is stipulated by hyperaldosteronism, antidiuretic hormone excess, estrogen-progesterone unbalance, initial disorder of the central hypothalamic regulation, etc. The treatment is mainly symptomatic; the disease course is non-malignant.