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The use of biatain Ag in hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Venous leg ulcers are common, troublesome, and their failure to heal is often related to a heavy bio-burden. Ionized silver has both anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties.
David Leaper, Christian Münter, Sylvie Meaume, Alessandro Scalise, Nacho Blanes Mompó, Birte Petersen Jakobsen, Finn Gottrup   +6 more
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Ulcus cruris caused by a giant pelvic mass: A case report

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2020
Background: The cause of most leg ulcers is vascular insufficiency. The most common are arterial and venous leg ulcers. Case Summary: We report a large therapy-resistant ulcer present for a year on the right leg of a 42-year-old woman who also had a ...
P.C. Goksedef, S. Gökce, D. Herkiloglu, S. Ermin, M. Ekmez   +4 more
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Clinical and histopathological responses to bee venom phonophoresis in treating venous and diabetic ulcers: a single-blind randomized controlled trial

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
IntroductionChronic venous and diabetic ulcers are hard to treat that cause patients long time of suffering as well as significant healthcare and financial costs.PurposeThe conducted study was to evaluate the efficacy of bee venom (BV) phonophoresis on ...
Eman M. Othman, Hamada Ahmed Hamada, Ghada I. Mohamed, Ghada A. Abdallah, Zeinab S. Ahmed, Abdullah M. Al-Shenqiti, Ahmed Mahmoud Kadry   +6 more
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DEep VEin Lesion OPtimisation (DEVELOP) trial: protocol for a randomised, assessor-blinded feasibility trial of iliac vein intervention for venous leg ulcers

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2021
Background Venous leg ulceration is a widespread, debilitating pathology with high recurrence rates. Conservative treatment using graduated compression dressings may be associated with unacceptable ulcer recurrence rates.
Thomas M. Aherne, Colm Keohane, Matthew Mullins, Adeel S. Zafar, Stephen A. Black, Tjun Y. Tang, Gerard J. O’Sullivan, Stewart R. Walsh   +7 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 Ågren   +7 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 A.H Regal   +2 more
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Iliac Vein Compression- The May-Thurner Syndrome Diagnosed by CT Angiography [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Chronic venous insufficiency and venous ulcers are a frequent cause of morbidity in diabetic as well as non-diabetic patients. Pelvic veins can often be involved by thrombosis.
Shibani Mehra, Mayank Choudhary
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi, Sang Won Lee, Mohammad Abrar Uddin, Sina Hassanpoor, Neha Suvindran, Katherine Le, Harun Arkaz, Harishkumar Narayana, Saeid Soltanian, Danial Khorsandi, Negar Hosseinzadeh Kouchehbaghi, Taeil Kim, Yangzhi Zhu   +12 more
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Diagnosis of stenosis within the popliteal–femoral venous segment upon clinical presentation with a venous ulcer and subsequent successful treatment with venoplasty

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2017
This case study reports the diagnosis and treatment of a lower limb venous ulcer with abnormal underlying venous pathology. One male patient presented with bilateral varicose veins and a right lower limb ulcer.
Emma Dabbs, Alina Sheikh, David Beckett, Mark S Whiteley   +3 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 S Petherick, Nicky A Cullum, Kate E Pickett   +2 more
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