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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, Catelyn Richards, Louise Turnour, Victoria Team   +3 more
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Venous leg ulcer

Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2014
“This case shows how important a causal therapy is when treating wounds. The wound healing process stagnated until the compression therapy was performd consistently. The use of led to an impressive granulation once the wound had the chance to heal.
Reena Rai, Venkataram Mysore
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Cytokines and Venous Leg Ulcer Healing-A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci, 2022
Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are the most common type of leg ulcers with a significant socioeconomic burden due to slow healing. Cytokines may be involved in the pathogenesis of VLUs.
Burian EA, Sabah L, Karlsmark T, Kirketerp-Møller K, Moffatt CJ, Thyssen JP, Ågren MS.   +6 more
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A meta-review of the impact of compression therapy on venous leg ulcer healing. [PDF]

Int Wound J, 2023
This meta‐review aimed to appraise and synthesise findings from existing systematic reviews that measured the impact of compression therapy on venous leg ulcers healing.
Patton D, Avsar P, Sayeh A, Budri A, O'Connor T, Walsh S, Nugent L, Harkin D, O'Brien N, Cayce J, Corcoran M, Gaztambide M, Moore Z.   +12 more
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How health literacy relates to venous leg ulcer healing: A scoping review [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
Background The 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.
Ayoub Bouguettaya, Georgina Gethin, Sebastian Probst, Jane Sixsmith, Victoria Team, Carolina Weller   +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, Cecilia Fagerström, Hanna Tuvesson, Gunilla Lindqvist   +3 more
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Longitudinal Evaluation of Biomarkers in Wound Fluids from Venous Leg Ulcers and Split-thickness Skin Graft Donor Site Wounds Treated with a Protease-modulating Wound Dressing

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, Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos, Louise Bundgaard, Cathrine Agnete Larsen, Simonas Savickas, Aleksander Moldt Haack, Konrad Pańczak, Katarzyna Rybołowicz, Tomasz Grzela, Michał Olszewski, Piotr Ciszewski, Karina Sitek-Ziółkowska, Krystyna Twardowska-Saucha, Marek Karczewski, Daniel Rabczenko, Agnieszka Segiet, Patrycja Buczak-Kula, Erwin M. Schoof, Sabine A. Eming, Hans Smola, Ulrich auf dem Keller   +20 more
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Understanding factors influencing venous leg ulcer guideline implementation in Australian primary care. [PDF]

Int Wound J, 2020
The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the venous leg ulcer (VLU) management in primary health care settings located in Melbourne metropolitan and rural Victoria, Australia. We explored health professionals' perspective on the use of
Weller CD, Richards C, Turnour L, Team V.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Health service costs of treating venous leg ulcers in the UK: evidence from a cross-sectional survey based in the north west of England

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To estimate and examine the direct healthcare costs of treating people with open venous leg ulcers in the UK.Design Cost-of-illness study.Setting A cross-sectional survey of nine National Health Service community locales over 2-week periods in
Matt Sutton, Jo C Dumville, Nicky Cullum, Sean Urwin   +3 more
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VenUS IV (Venous leg Ulcer Study IV) – compression hosiery compared with compression bandaging in the treatment of venous leg ulcers: a randomised controlled trial, mixed-treatment comparison and decision-analytic model

Health Technology Assessment, 2014
Background: Compression is an effective and recommended treatment for venous leg ulcers. Although the four-layer bandage (4LB) is regarded as the gold standard compression system, it is recognised that the amount of compression delivered might be ...
Rebecca L Ashby, Rhian Gabe, Shehzad Ali, Pedro Saramago, Ling-Hsiang Chuang, Una Adderley, J Martin Bland, Nicky A Cullum, Jo C Dumville, Cynthia P Iglesias, Arthur R Kang’ombe, Marta O Soares, Nikki C Stubbs, David J Torgerson   +13 more
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