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
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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 ...
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A targeted interprofessional educational intervention to address therapeutic adherence of venous leg ulcer persons (TIEIVLU): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
Trials, 2019 BackgroundVenous leg ulcers are slow-healing wounds with a high recurrence rate of 70% and a 60% risk of becoming chronic. Signs and symptoms such as pain or exudate are not only a burden on those affected but also on the healthcare system and society in
Probst S +4 more
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Internal consistency and reliability of the Swiss-French translation of the venous leg ulcer self efficacy tool (VeLUSET) [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Objective This study was conducted to assess the psychometric properties of the translated and adapted Venous Leg Ulcer Self Efficacy Tool (VeLUSET) in the new cultural context.Design Validation studySetting Three outpatient clinics in Western ...
Sebastian Probst +2 more
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ABPI reporting and compression recommendations in global clinical practice guidelines on venous leg ulcer management: A scoping review. [PDF]
Int Wound J, 2019 Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for venous leg ulcer (VLU) management recommend below‐knee compression to improve healing outcomes after calculating the ankle‐brachial pressure index (ABPI) to rule out significant arterial disease.
Weller CD +4 more
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Satisfactory result of great saphenous vein endovenous laser ablation until below the knee on active venous leg ulcer: a case series [version 4; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 Background Active venous leg ulcer (VLU) is the most severe manifestation of chronic venous disease which not only affects patients’ health, but also decreases the quality of life, and delivers economic burdens.
Jonathan Edbert Afandy +5 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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A non-invasive Ayurveda management of venous leg ulcer- A case report [PDF]
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative MedicineVenous leg ulcer (VLU) is a severe complication of chronic venous insufficiency that commonly affects older individuals. It is a long-standing consequence of venous insufficiency and accounts for 70%–80% of lower limb ulcers seen in outpatient ...
Archana Muraleedharan +2 more
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Venous leg ulcer management [PDF]
Nurse Prescribing, 2017 The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE, 2016) define a leg ulcer as a loss of skin on the foot or the leg (below the knee), which has not healed within 2 weeks and is considered chronic if not healed within 4 weeks. The cause of venous leg ulcers is prolonged venous hypertension consequential of an insufficient calf muscle pump and/
Nuttall, Dilyse
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