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Development and validation of a new patient-reported outcome measure for patients with pressure ulcers: the PU-QOL instrument. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcome (PRO) data are integral to patient care, policy decision making and healthcare delivery. PRO assessment in pressure ulcers is in its infancy, with few studies including PROs as study outcomes.
Gorecki, C, McGinnis, Elizabeth, Cano, S, Coleman, S, Briggs, Michelle; id_orcid, McGinnis, E, Wilson, L, Briggs, Michelle, Nelson, AE, Nelson, Andrea E, Cano, Stefan, Cano, S. J., Dealey, Carol, Dealey, C, Stubbs, N, Briggs, M, Nixon, J, Lamping, DL, Brown, Julia M., Lamping, D. L., Coleman, Susanne, Nixon, Jane, Lamping, Donna L., Brown, Julia M, Wilson, Lyn, Nelson, Andrea E.; id_orcid, Lamping, Donna L, Stubbs, Nikki, Gorecki, Claudia, Brown, JM   +29 more
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Self-Care Planning and Sanitary Education in the Prevention of the Diabetic Foot

Applied Sciences, 2021
Diabetes Mellitus is the main cause of chronic patients in Spain. An equivocal exploration by the health worker and the client itself leads to the appearance of chronic complications, the most important being diabetic foot.
Álvaro Astasio-Picado, Paula Cobos-Moreno, Beatriz Gómez-Martín   +2 more
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Complications as through presentation in pentazocine dependence among the healthcare personnel: A case series from consultation-liaison addiction psychiatry

Archives of Mental Health, 2023
Pentazocine is a synthetic, narcotic analgesic, indicated for various moderate-to-severe pain conditions. Its use and dependence on health care personnel pose unique challenges that make them difficult in seeking help.
Naveen Kumar Dhagudu, Sathish Attili
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Ulcerative Sarcoidosis: An Atypical Cause of Leg Ulcers.

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical MessageWe present the case of an 83‐year‐old woman with leg ulcers who was diagnosed with sarcoidosis. This case highlights the importance for clinicians to consider ulcerative sarcoidosis when encountering patients with leg ulcers along with hilar adenopathy, uveitis, elevated serum angiotensin‐converting enzyme, and histopathological ...
Kazuki Miyaue, Tetsuya Hoshi, Hiroki Isono   +2 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, Michaels, Jonathan, Tew, G.A., Middleton, Geoff, Anil Gumber (3400901), Jonathan Michaels (3400904), Geoff Middleton (3400895), Klonizakis, Markos, Tew, Garry, Garry Tew (3400907), Helen Crank (3400898), Gumber, A., Tew, Garry A., Michaels, J., Crank, H., Klonizakis, M., Crank, Helen, Middleton, G., Markos Klonizakis (3400910)   +18 more
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Marjolin's Ulcers at a University Teaching Hospital in Northwestern Tanzania: A Retrospective Review of 56 Cases. [PDF]

, 2012
Marjolin's ulcer is a rare but highly aggressive squamous cell cancer that is most often associated with chronic burn wounds. Although many individual case reports exist, no comprehensive evaluation of Marjolin's ulcer patients has been conducted in our ...
Rambau, Peter, Nestory Masalu, Ssentongo, Robert, Giiti, G., Peter Rambau, Gilyoma, Japhet M, Chandika, A.B, Phillipo L Chalya, Chalya Phillipo L, Joseph B Mabula, Mchembe Mabula D, Giiti Geofrey, Kahima, K.J., Ssentongo, R., Chandika, Alphonce B, Ssentongo Robert, Kahima J Kahima, Mchembe, Mabula D, Geofrey Giiti, Gilyoma Japhet M, Kahima, Kahima J, Mabula D Mchembe, Masalu, N., Giiti, Geofrey, Rambau Peter, Alphonce B Chandika, Rambau, P., Chandika Alphonce B, Masalu Nestory, Chalya, Phillipo L, Masalu, Nestory, Robert Ssentongo, Gilyoma, J.M, Mabula1 Joseph B, Mabula, J.B, Chalya, P.L, Kahima Kahima J, Japhet M Gilyoma, Mabula, Joseph B, Mchembe, M.D   +39 more
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Using honey to heal diabetic foot ulcers

, 2008
Diabetic ulcers seem to be arrested in the inflammatory/proliferative stage of the healing process, allowing infection and inflammation to preclude healing.
Molan, Peter C., Betts, J.A.
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Ionizing Radiation Mediates Dose Dependent Effects Affecting the Healing Kinetics of Wounds Created on Acute and Late Irradiated Skin

Surgeries, 2021
Radiotherapy for cancer treatment is often associated with skin damage that can lead to incapacitating hard-to-heal wounds. No permanent curative treatment has been identified for radiodermatitis.
Candice Diaz, Cindy J. Hayward, Meryem Safoine, Caroline Paquette, Josée Langevin, Josée Galarneau, Valérie Théberge, Jean Ruel, Louis Archambault, Julie Fradette   +9 more
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A three-stage sequential surgical approach to a more efficient management of clinical stage 4 diabetic foot ulcers

Frontiers in Surgery
BackgroundIt has been a great challenge to treat clinical stage 4 Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) due to high rates of major amputations and prolonged healing time.
Fang Zhang, Fang Zhang, Yu Guo, Yu Guo, Wenduo Zhang, Wenduo Zhang, Ilaria Dal Prà, Wei Chen, Wei Chen, Xiaojin Mo, Xiaojin Mo, Hehua Song, Anna Chiarini, Jinpiao Yang, Jinpiao Yang, Kaiyu Nie, Kaiyu Nie, Zairong Wei, Zairong Wei, Shusen Chang, Shusen Chang   +20 more
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Hughes-Stovin syndrome: A rare cause of hemoptysis

Lung India, 2011
Multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms are seen along with venous thrombosis in Hughes-Stovin syndrome, which many investigators believe is an incomplete form of Behcet′s disease.
Naseer A Choh, Majid Jehangir, Khalid Mohiuddin Mir, Sanaullah Kuchay, Nisar A Wani   +4 more
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