Compression therapy for leg oedema in patients with heart failure

T Urbanek, M Juśko, WB Kuczmik - ESC heart failure, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of chronic heart failure (CHF) results in a significant risk of leg oedema.
Medical compression (MC) treatment is one of the basic methods of leg oedema elimination …

Diagnosis and management of venous leg ulcers

CS Lim, M Baruah, SS Bahia - bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Venous leg ulcers are the most common type of leg ulcer, with an estimated prevalence of
0.1 and 0.3% in the UK. 1 The lifetime risk of developing a venous leg ulcer is 1%. 2 3 A …

Multifunctional fibrous wound dressings for refractory wound healing

Y Gao, Z Qiu, L Liu, M Li, B Xu, D Yu… - Journal of Polymer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Refractory wounds have always been an important issue to healthcare systems, whose
healing process is always delayed by multiple factors, including bacterial infections, chronic …

A meta‐review of the impact of compression therapy on venous leg ulcer healing

D Patton, P Avsar, A Sayeh, A Budri… - International wound …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This meta‐review aimed to appraise and synthesise findings from existing systematic
reviews that measured the impact of compression therapy on venous leg ulcers healing. We …

Growth factors for treating chronic venous leg ulcers: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Y Lee, MH Lee, SA Phillips… - Wound Repair and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic venous leg ulcers (VLU) are wounds that commonly occur due to venous
insufficiency. Many growth factors have been introduced over the past two decades to treat …

Venous Leg Ulcers (Japanese Version)

A Vivas, H Lev-Tov, RS Kirsner - Annals of internal medicine, 2016 - acpjournals.org
Venous Leg Ulcers (Japanese Version) Page 1 Annals of Internal Medicine® In the Clinic®
静脈うっ滞性 下腿潰瘍 静脈うっ滞性下腿潰瘍は,有病率の高さ,治癒までに しばしば長い期間が …

Advanced wound diagnostics: toward transforming wound care into precision medicine

MA Weigelt, HA Lev-Tov, M Tomic-Canic… - Advances in Wound …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Nonhealing wounds are an ever-growing global pandemic, with mortality rates
and management costs exceeding many common cancers. Although our understanding of …

2019 Guideline for Management of Wounds in Patients With Lower-Extremity Venous Disease (LEVD): An Executive Summary

TJ Kelechi, G Brunette, PA Bonham… - Journal of Wound …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
This article provides an executive summary of the 2019 Guideline for Management of
Wounds in Patients with Lower-Extremity Venous Disease (LEVD) published by the Wound …

Venous leg ulcers: a review of published assessment and treatment algorithms

SF Bernatchez, J Eysaman-Walker… - Advances in Wound …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Chronic venous disease (CVD) is prevalent in the aging population and leads
to venous leg ulcers (VLUs). These wounds can last and recur for years, significantly …

Effectiveness of the strategies of an orientation programme for the lifestyle and wound‐healing process in patients with venous ulcer: a randomised controlled trial

EAR Domingues, UAO Kaizer… - International wound …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of strategies of a lifestyle orientation programme on
patients with venous ulcer in elastic compression therapy. This was a single‐blind, 2‐arm …