FIG. 3.

Chamber inflation time 20 seconds, of the entire sleeve 160 seconds. Numbers denote sleeve chambers. Inflation pressure was 120 mmHg. TF pressure recorded in the subcutaneous tissue of a lymphedematous calf, stage III, during sequential inflation above ankle under chamber 3 (upper curve), mid-calf chamber 4 (middle curve), and below knee chamber 5 (lower curve). Difficulties in discriminating TF head pressures on the ascending arm of the recorded curves. Note that the peak TF pressure level reached after inflation of the whole sleeve only 80–100 mmHg. Close to the knee TF pressure was only 50 mmHg (lower curve). Moreover, pressures after deflation did not drop to zero but remained at 20–40 mmHg.