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Prevalence of people with sickle cell disease and leg ulcers in Brazil: Socioeconomic and clinical overview.

PLoS ONE, 2022
ObjectiveTo identify the prevalence of people with leg ulcers resulting from sickle cell disease, as well as to describe the clinical, social, economic, and demographic conditions of these people.MethodDescriptive study, carried out at the Minas Gerais ...
Josimare Aparecida Otoni Spira, Eline Lima Borges, Antônio Carlos Martins Guedes, Paula Gabriela Ribeiro Andrade, Vera Lúcia de Araújo Nogueira Lima   +4 more
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Exploring Resilience When Living with a Wound — An Integrative Literature Review [PDF]

, 2014
The psychological impact for patients with wounds can be significant, and adverse psychological effects frequently occur when there are permanent changes in the body’s structure or function.
Edward, Karen-Leigh, Ousey, Karen
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Ulcus cruris caused by a giant pelvic mass: A case report

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2020
Background: The cause of most leg ulcers is vascular insufficiency. The most common are arterial and venous leg ulcers. Case Summary: We report a large therapy-resistant ulcer present for a year on the right leg of a 42-year-old woman who also had a ...
P.C. Goksedef, S. Gökce, D. Herkiloglu, S. Ermin, M. Ekmez   +4 more
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Chronic venous leg ulcer with multidrug resistant bacterial infection in a tertiary care hospital of Eastern India

Journal of the Scientific Society, 2013
Chronic venous leg ulcer represents a major issue for both patients and health-care provider being associated with impaired quality of life. We here report a case of non-healing venous ulcer over gaiter area of right leg.
Kalidas Rit, Falguni Nag, Abhik Sarkar, Prasanta Kumar Maiti   +3 more
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Chronic dermatomycoses of the foot as risk factors for acute bacterial cellulitis of the leg: A case-control study [PDF]

, 2004
Objective: To assess the role of foot dermatomycosis ( tinea pedis and onychomycosis) and other candidate risk factors in the development of acute bacterial cellulitis of the leg.
Bardur Sigurgeirsson, Carle Paul, Dupuy A, Guberman D, Hans-Christian Korting, Helmut Kerl, Hull PR, Jean-Claude Roujeau, Roberts DT, Ronnen M, Sais G, Semel JD, Stulberg DL, Suss SJ   +13 more
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Compression in hypertensive leg ulcer (Martorell’s ulcer)

Veins and Lymphatics, 2016
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Patricia Senet
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What promotes or prevents greater use of appropriate compression in people with venous leg ulcers? A qualitative interview study with nurses in the north of England using the Theoretical Domains Framework

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To investigate factors that promote and prevent the use of compression therapy in people with venous leg ulcers.Design Qualitative interview study with nurses using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF).Setting Three National Health Service ...
Jane Griffiths, Jo C Dumville, Jacqueline F Lavallée, Nicky Cullum, Catherine Perry, Ross A Atkinson, Paul M Wilson, Julie Mullings   +7 more
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Coinfection of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and Streptococcus pneumoniae in multiple cutaneous lesions [PDF]

, 2016
Key learning points Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common clinical disease caused by all the Leishmania species that are pathogenic to humans. Other bacterial coinfections of Leishmania lesions have been described, but this is the first report of ...
Chiapello, Laura Silvina, Cortes, Paulo R., De Petris, Carlos, Dib, David, Echenique, Jose Ricardo, Herrero, Mónica V., Nuncira, Carmen T.   +6 more
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Martorell’s ulcer: a literature review and own clinical observation

Амбулаторная хирургия, 2021
Introduction. Martorell’s ulcer is a rather rare pathology that occurs exclusively in patients with long-term and poorly controlled arterial hypertension and continues to be one of the poorly studied areas of modern surgery.
B. V. Boldin, P. Yu. Golosnitskiy, V. Yu. Bogachev, S. V. Rodionov, I. M. Dizengof   +4 more
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Evaluating telemedicine: A focus on patient pathways [PDF]

, 2006
Evaluations of telemedicine have sought to assess various measures of effectiveness (e.g., diagnostic accuracy), efficiency (e.g., cost), and engagement (e.g., patient satisfaction) to determine its success.
Coughlan, JA, Eatock, J, Eldabi, T
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