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Topical agents or dressings for pain in venous leg ulcers. [PDF]

, 2010
Venous leg ulcers affect up to 1% of people at some time in their lives and are often painful. The main treatments are compression bandages and dressings.
Briggs, M, Nelson, EA, Martyn-St James, M   +2 more
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The evidence supporting the use of honey as a wound dressing [PDF]

, 2006
Some clinicians are under the impression that there is little or no evidence to support the use of honey as a wound dressing. This impression is reinforced by it being concluded in systematic reviews that the evidence is not of a high standard.
Molan, Peter C.
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A randomised controlled trial of compression therapies for the treatment of venous leg ulcers (VenUS 6): study protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, parallel-group, three-arm randomised controlled trial

Trials, 2023
Background Venous leg ulcer(s) are common, recurring, open wounds on the lower leg, resulting from diseased or damaged leg veins impairing blood flow. Wound healing is the primary treatment aim for venous leg ulceration, alongside the management of pain,
C. E. Arundel, C. Welch, P. Saramago, U. Adderley, R. Atkinson, I. Chetter, N. Cullum, T. Davill, J. Griffiths, C. Hewitt, C. Hirst, M. Kletter, J. Mullings, G. Roberts, B. Smart, M. Soares, P. Stather, L. Strachan, N. Stubbs, D. J. Torgerson, J. Watson, S. Zahra, J. Dumville   +22 more
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Cost-Effective Use of Silver Dressings for the Treatment of Hard-to-Heal Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers [PDF]

, 2014
Aim To estimate the cost-effectiveness of silver dressings using a health economic model based on time-to-wound-healing in hard-to-heal chronic venous leg ulcers (VLUs). Background Chronic venous ulceration affects 1–3% of the adult population and
AB Lansdown, CE Davies, D Leaper, D Leaper, D Leaper, D Maddox, David John Leaper, DJ Leaper, DJ Leaper, DJ Margolis, DJ Margolis, E Scanlon, F Gottrup, F Gottrup, Gregor B. E. Jemec, H Chambers, H. Peter Soyer, JA Michaels, Jean Charles Kerihuel, JR Barwell, JV Cornwall, Karen Ousey, MH Hermans, MJ Carter, NJ Trengove, RJ White, Sanne Lise Lauemøller, SF Lo, SF Lo, SR Baker   +29 more
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Comparison of efficacy of autologous platelet-rich fibrin versus Unna's paste dressing in chronic venous leg ulcers: A comparative study

Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2020
Background: Chronic venous leg ulcers are difficult to treat and recurrences are common. Among various modalities of treatment, platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) has shown promising results in ulcer healing by providing necessary growth factors.
G Yuvasri, Reena Rai
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Therapie chronischer Wunden mit wassergefiltertem Infrarot A (wIRA) [PDF]

, 2008
The central portion of chronic wounds is often hypoxic and relatively hypothermic, representing a deficient energy supply of the tissue, which impedes wound healing or even makes it impossible.
Daeschlein, Georg, Felbert, Verena von, Hoffmann, Gerd, Mercer, James B., Schumann, Hauke, Strasser, Wolfgang   +5 more
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A Challenging Diagnosis of Leg Ulcer

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2018
Ischaemic ulcers of the lower limb can have several aethiopathological mechanisms. For instance, the uncommon Martorell hypertensive leg ulcer is an infrequent complication of long-term uncontrolled arterial hypertension and is largely ignored and ...
Maria João Serpa, Susana Franco, Diana Repolho, Isabel Araújo, Sofia Mateus, António Martins Baptista, José Lomelino Araújo   +6 more
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Venous leg ulcer management [PDF]

, 2017
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE, 2016) define a leg ulcer as a loss of skin on the foot or the leg (below the knee), which has not healed within 2 weeks and is considered chronic if not healed within 4 weeks.
Nuttall, Dilyse
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Nonhealing venous ulcer in a patient with dystrophic soft tissue calcification

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2022
Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are lesions of the skin found in regions of venous hypertension. VLUs that fail to heal can become chronic, especially because of calcified deposits in the bed of the ulcer. The unclear mechanism behind the cause of calcification
Abdullah Nasif, MD, Karen Bauer, DNP, APRN-FNP, CWS, Vanessa Pasadyn, BA, Ayman Ahmed, MD, Munier Nazzal, MD, MBA, Mohamed Osman, MD, MBA   +5 more
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A randomized trial of early endovenous ablation in venous ulceration [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND Venous disease is the most common cause of leg ulceration. Although compression therapy improves venous ulcer healing, it does not treat the underlying causes of venous hypertension.
Bradbury, A, Bulbulia, R, Cullum, N, Davies, AH, Epstein, DM, Gohel, MS, Heatley, F, Liu, X, Nyamekye, I, Poskitt, KR, Renton, S, Trial Investigators, EVRA, Warwick, J   +12 more
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