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Health-related quality of life in patients with venous leg ulcer treated in primary care in Brazil and Portugal. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Venous ulcers constitute an important public health problem as they can cause disability with consequences for multiple dimensions of quality of life.To describe the quality of life in patients with venous leg ulcer treated in primary care in two cities ...
Sandra Maria da Solidade Simões de Oliveira Torres, Rhayssa de Oliveira E Araújo, Isabelle Katherinne Fernandes Costa, Manuela Pinto Tibúrcio, Amanda Jessica Gomes de Sousa, Aline Maino Pergola-Marconato, Thalyta Cristina Mansano-Schlosser, Marina de Góes Salvetti, Felismina Rosa Parreira Mendes, Gilson de Vasconcelos Torres, Eulalia Maria Chaves Maia   +10 more
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Assessing the uncertainty of treatment outcomes in a previous systematic review of venous leg ulcer randomized controlled trials: Additional secondary analysis. [PDF]

Wound Repair Regen, 2021
Eckert KA, Carter MJ.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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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Photobiomodulation, as additional treatment to traditional dressing of hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers, in frail elderly with municipality home healthcare

PLoS ONE, 2022
The main objectives of the study were to explore whether laser Photobiomodulation (PBM) in addition to traditional dressing of hard-to-heal venous leg ulcer, reduced healing time of the ulcer and if the duration of the ulcer before PBM impacted the ...
Marianne Degerman, Micael Öhman, Bo C. Bertilson   +2 more
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Venous and arterial leg ulcers [PDF]

BMJ, 2006
Venous leg ulceration is due to sustained venous hypertension, which results from chronic venous insufficiency. In the normal venous system, pressure decreases with exercise as a result of the action of the calf muscle pump. When the muscles relax, the valves in the perforating veins connecting the superficial to the deep venous circulation prevent ...
Joseph E, Grey, Keith G, Harding, Stuart, Enoch   +2 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, Nao Tamai, Gojiro Nakagami, Aya Kitamura, Ayumi Naito, Masayuki Hirokawa, Chisako Shimokawa, Kazuo Takahashi, Junichi Umemoto, Hiromi Sanada   +9 more
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Clinico-etiological evaluation of chronic leg ulcer in a tertiary care center of eastern India

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2020
Background: A chronic leg ulcer (CLU) is a significant public health problem. It has various etiologies. Racial, familial, occupational, and social factors may also have an impact on the prevalence of different causes of leg ulcers.
Falguni Nag, Gobinda Chatterjee, Arghyaprasun Ghosh, Abhishek De   +3 more
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Compression for venous leg ulcers [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012
Up to one percent of people in industrialised countries will suffer from a leg ulcer at some time. The majority of these leg ulcers are due to problems in the veins, resulting in an accumulation of blood in the legs. Leg ulcers arising from venous problems are called venous (or varicose or stasis) ulcers. The main treatment is the application of a firm
O'Meara, Susan, Cullum, Nicky, Nelson, E. Andrea, Dumville, J. C.   +3 more
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Leg ulceration in venous disease [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1992
Summary We have given a brief summary of the scale of the problem caused by venous ulceration in the UK, and have then reviewed the various theories of causation, including a historical survey, and presented the evidence for and against the two main current theories of fibrin cuffs and white cell trapping.
S K, Shami, D A, Shields, J H, Scurr, P D, Smith   +3 more
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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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