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EFFECT OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM REGARDING CARE OF WOUND HEALING FOR VENOUS LEG ULCER PATIENTS’ [PDF]

Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing, 2022
               Background: Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are chronic wounds that impose a substantial economic burden on world health care system and significant morbidity.
Reham Moharam Serag, Eman Shaheen, Dina Sobeh, Naglaa Mahdy   +3 more
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Value of combined exercise and ultrasound as an adjunct to compression therapy in chronic venous leg ulcers

Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, 2017
Introduction Chronic venous leg ulcers are very difficult to treat and take very long time to heal. Compression therapy remains the mainstay of venous ulcer conservative treatment. Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of combined
Rehab A. E. Sallam, Atif I. El Ghaweet, Samer Regal   +2 more
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Investigation of the Effect of Deprivation on the Burden and Management of Venous Leg Ulcers: A Cohort Study Using the THIN Database

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundThere has been limited examination of the contribution of socio-economic factors to the development of leg ulcers, despite the social patterning of many underlying risk factors.
Emily Petherick, Nicky Cullum, Kate E. Pickett   +2 more
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Biomarkers of Skin Graft Healing in Venous Leg Ulcers

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2022
There is a need for biomarkers that predict the success of transplantation of venous leg ulcers (with autologous split-thickness skin grafts). The primary objective of this exploratory study was to investigate the association between split-thickness skin
Klaus Kirketerp‐Møller, Petra Doerfler, Nicole Schoefmann, Barbara Wolf-Winiski, Omid Niazi, Vibeke Pless, Tonny Karlsmark, Magnus S. Ågren   +7 more
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How health literacy relates to venous leg ulcer healing: A scoping review

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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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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Daily life after healing of a venous leg ulcer: A lifeworld phenomenological study

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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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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A randomised controlled trial of compression therapies for the treatment of venous leg ulcers (VenUS 6): study protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, parallel-group, three-arm randomised controlled trial

Trials, 2023
Background Venous leg ulcer(s) are common, recurring, open wounds on the lower leg, resulting from diseased or damaged leg veins impairing blood flow. Wound healing is the primary treatment aim for venous leg ulceration, alongside the management of pain,
C. E. Arundel, C. Welch, P. Saramago, U. Adderley, R. Atkinson, I. Chetter, N. Cullum, T. Davill, J. Griffiths, C. Hewitt, C. Hirst, M. Kletter, J. Mullings, G. Roberts, B. Smart, M. Soares, P. Stather, L. Strachan, N. Stubbs, D. J. Torgerson, J. Watson, S. Zahra, J. Dumville   +22 more
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