[HTML][HTML] Why venous leg ulcers have difficulty healing: overview on pathophysiology, clinical consequences, and treatment

JD Raffetto, D Ligi, R Maniscalco, RA Khalil… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are one of the most common ulcers of the lower extremity. VLU
affects many individuals worldwide, could pose a significant socioeconomic burden to the …

Venous ulcer: epidemiology, physiopathology, diagnosis and treatment

LPF Abbade, S Lastória - International journal of dermatology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This review discusses the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and current therapeutic
options for venous ulcer. Venous ulcer is a severe clinical manifestation of chronic venous …

Venous leg ulceration pathophysiology and evidence based treatment

YW Chi, JD Raffetto - Vascular Medicine, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Venous leg ulceration (VLU) is one of the most predominate medical disorders worldwide
and in the western hemisphere it affects around 1.5% of the general population and up to …

Chronic venous disease and venous leg ulcers: an evidence-based update

TJ Kelechi, JJ Johnson, S Yates - Journal of vascular nursing, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Chronic venous disease is a complex vascular condition that affects the lower
legs.•Venous leg ulcers are debilitating complications that affect millions …

Chronic venous insufficiency and venous leg ulceration

IC Valencia, A Falabella, RS Kirsner… - Journal of the American …, 2001 - Elsevier
Venous ulcers are the most common form of leg ulcers. Venous disease has a significant
impact on quality of life and work productivity. In addition, the costs associated with the long …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and incidence of venous leg ulcers—a protocol for a systematic review

S Probst, CD Weller, P Bobbink, C Saini, M Pugliese… - Systematic reviews, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are chronic wounds characterized by slow
healing and high recurrence. Information on prevalence and incidence is essential for …

Recent insights into the causes of chronic leg ulceration in venous diseases and implications on other types of chronic wounds

WYJ Chen, AA Rogers - Wound repair and regeneration, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Venous ulceration represents the most prevalent form of difficult‐to‐heal wounds and these
problematic wounds require a significant amount of healthcare resources for their treatment …

Treatment of superficial and perforator reflux and deep venous stenosis improves healing of chronic venous leg ulcers

PF Lawrence, ES Hager, MP Harlander-Locke… - Journal of Vascular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate the impact of three treatment modalities, superficial truncal vein
ablation, perforator vein ablation, and deep venous stenting on venous leg ulcer (VLU) …

[HTML][HTML] Venous leg ulcers: pathophysiology and classification

B Vasudevan - Indian dermatology online journal, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are defined as open lesions between the knee and ankle joint that
occur in the presence of venous disease.[1] They are the most common cause of leg ulcers …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies and challenges in the treatment of chronic venous leg ulcers

SY Ren, YS Liu, GJ Zhu, M Liu, SH Shi… - World journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Evaluating patients with chronic venous leg ulcers (CVLUs) is essential to find the
underlying etiology. The basic tenets in managing CVLUs are to remove the etiological …