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Exploring Resilience When Living with a Wound — An Integrative Literature Review [PDF]

, 2014
The psychological impact for patients with wounds can be significant, and adverse psychological effects frequently occur when there are permanent changes in the body’s structure or function.
Edward, Karen-Leigh, Ousey, Karen
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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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Venous leg ulcers. [PDF]

BMJ, 1966
H. Jones, J. Townsend
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EUREKA study - The evaluation of real-life use of a biophotonic system in chronic wound management: An interim analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: Interest has grown regarding photobiomodulation (PBM) with low-level light therapy, which has been shown to positively affect the stages of the wound healing process.
Bassetto, Franco, Dini, Valentina, Fauverghe, St\ue9phane, Iacopi, Elisabetta, Janowska, Agata, Piaggesi, Alberto, Romanelli, Marco, Scapagnini, Giovanni, Scarpa, Carlotta   +8 more
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Experiences With Surgical Treatment of Chronic Lower Limb Ulcers at a Tertiary Hospital in Northwestern Tanzania: A Prospective Review of 300 Cases. [PDF]

, 2012
Chronic lower limb ulcers constitute a major public health problem of great important all over the world and contribute significantly to high morbidity and long-term disabilities. There is paucity of information regarding chronic lower limb ulcers in our
Chalya, Phillipo L, Gilyoma, Japhet M, Kidenya, Benson R, Mbunda, Fidelis, McHembe, Mabula D, Mshana, Stephen E, Rambau, Peter   +6 more
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Venous leg ulcer management [PDF]

, 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.
Nuttall, Dilyse
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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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What promotes or prevents greater use of appropriate compression in people with venous leg ulcers? A qualitative interview study with nurses in the north of England using the Theoretical Domains Framework

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To investigate factors that promote and prevent the use of compression therapy in people with venous leg ulcers.Design Qualitative interview study with nurses using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF).Setting Three National Health Service ...
Jane Griffiths, Jo C Dumville, Jacqueline F Lavallée, Nicky Cullum, Catherine Perry, Ross A Atkinson, Paul M Wilson, Julie Mullings   +7 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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