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How health literacy relates to venous leg ulcer healing: A scoping review. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 BackgroundThe level of personal health literacy of patients with venous leg ulcers is likely to affect their ability to self-manage their condition impacting on their adherence to treatment and influences healing and recovery outcomes.ObjectivesTo scope ...
Ayoub Bouguettaya +5 more
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Daily life after healing of a venous leg ulcer: A lifeworld phenomenological study [PDF]
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2022 Purpose Venous leg ulcer is a recognized condition, affecting people globally. Ulcers mainly affect the elderly and recurrences are not uncommon. There is knowledge about life with venous leg ulcers, but the situation after healing is unexplored.
Marcus Rosenburg +3 more
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Dechloridation in Ulcers of the Leg [PDF]
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1906 n ...
PAUL OLIVER
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Clinico-etiological evaluation of chronic leg ulcer in a tertiary care center of eastern India
Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2020 Background: A chronic leg ulcer (CLU) is a significant public health problem. It has various etiologies. Racial, familial, occupational, and social factors may also have an impact on the prevalence of different causes of leg ulcers.
Falguni Nag +3 more
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Patient Explanation of Adherence and Non-Adherence to Venous Leg Ulcer Treatment: A Qualitative Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 The aim of this study was to understand which factors influence patients’ adherence to venous leg ulcer treatment recommendations in primary care. We adopted a qualitative study design, conducting phone interviews with 31 people with venous leg ulcers in
Carolina D. Weller +3 more
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Management of leg ulcers [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2000 Abstract Leg ulcer is a leading cause of morbidity among older subjects, especially women in the Western world. About 400 years BC, Hippocrates wrote, “In case of an ulcer, it is not expedient to stand, especially if the ulcer be situated on the leg”. Hippocrates himself had a leg ulcer.
P K Sarkar, S Ballantyne
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2022 Venous leg ulcers represent a clinical challenge and impair the quality of life of patients. This study examines impaired wound healing in venous leg ulcers at the molecular level.
Jacek Mikosiński +20 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 The main objectives of the study were to explore whether laser Photobiomodulation (PBM) in addition to traditional dressing of hard-to-heal venous leg ulcer, reduced healing time of the ulcer and if the duration of the ulcer before PBM impacted the ...
Marianne Degerman +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1991 The treatment of leg ulcers is a common and sometimes difficult problem. They can be costly to treat and are associated with loss of working capacity and sometimes significant morbidity. In the western world, leg ulcers are most frequently caused by venous insufficiency, arterial insufficiency, neuropathy (usually diabetic), or a combination of these ...
T J, Phillips, J S, Dover
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