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Australian Journal of General Practice, 2021 Case: A man aged 55 years presented with a two-week history of an enlarging painful ulcer affecting his right lower leg. It had not responded to a five-day course of oral cephalexin. He had no prior history of skin ulcers. His medical history included hypertension, gout, obesity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
O'Bryen, John, Webb, Damian
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Leg ulceration: An exploration of the role of socio-economic factors in the epidemiology, access to health care and outcomes. [PDF]
, 2010 Background Tackling health inequalities has been a priority policy area for the NHS since the 1990’s. To date there has been scant research addressing this area in relation to leg ulcers, despite there being some evidence of inequalities in leg ulcer ...
Petherick, Emily
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Community Nurses' Judgement and Decision Making for the Management of Venous Leg Ulceration [PDF]
, 2013 Management of leg ulceration is an important part of community nurses’ workload but previous evidence suggests the quality of diagnosis and treatment of venous leg ulceration may be below that which should be expected.
Adderley, Una
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Creating innovation in lymphoedema nursing through collaboration [PDF]
, 2009 Against a background of fiscal and regulatory pressure to rationalize and justify health-care interventions, there is an underlying political message that greater cooperation and collaboration would improve health-care for all.
Davies, R., Jones, J.
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Homeless people and injecting drug users: Implications for wound care
, 2003 Alison Coull – ORCID: 0000-0002-3166-0699 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-0699Item not available in this repository.https://www.legulcerforum.org/resources-publications ...
Nicolson, P., Coull, Alison
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Journal of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, 2022 Background: Chronic nonhealing ulcers of the lower extremity are a cause of morbidity and mortality. The various treatment options available are limited and unsatisfactory.
Amina Asfiya +3 more
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Can Wound Exudate from Venous Leg Ulcers Measure Wound Pain Status?: A Pilot Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We investigated the associations between the self-evaluated pain status and two pain biomarker candidates, nerve growth factor and S100A8/A9, in exudate from venous leg ulcer to finally develop an objective pain evaluation method.
Taichi Goto +9 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 +6 more
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Supervised exercise training as an adjunctive therapy for venous leg ulcers: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial [PDF]
, 2015 Background Venous leg ulcers are common, chronic wounds that are painful and reduce quality of life. Compression therapy is known to assist in the healing of venous leg ulceration.
Gumber, Anil +18 more
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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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