Leg ulcer
Leg ulcer nursing care in the community: a prospective cohort study of the symptom of pain
... of ulcer at baseline, time to healing of current ulcer, and mobility and medications for pain ...the Leg Ulcer Assessment Tool (LUAT) ...
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Nurse clinic versus home delivery of evidence based community leg ulcer care: A randomized health services trial
... The results from this health services trial differ from previ- ous reports which have concluded that clinic care is supe- rior to home care at improving leg ulcer healing. Organization of care, rather than ...
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Leg Ulcer Wound Image Analysis of Sickle cell Anemia- a fuzzy thresholding based Approach
... Fuzzy set theory is not new now and is already applied in several areas of medicine, biology, biomedical engineering etc., even after its introduction by Zadeh[1]. Zadeh has revealed the truth that, disease diagnosis ...
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Cost effectiveness of compression technologies for evidence informed leg ulcer care: results from the Canadian Bandaging Trial
... O’Meara et al. conducted a systematic review (and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials with data from individual patients) evaluating 4LB and SSB for venous leg ulcers [39]. They identified seven eligible ...
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Cost effectiveness of community leg ulcer clinics: randomised controlled trial
... initial leg ulcer to heal, and the log rank test to compare the healing times of both ...age, ulcer area, ulcer duration, and history of deep vein involvement were important factors in ...
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Aspirin in venous leg ulcer study (ASPiVLU): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... Venous leg ulceration is a common and costly problem that is expected to worsen as the population ...and ulcer recurrence is ...aid ulcer healing and reduce recurrence. The Aspirin in Venous ...
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Honey dressing on a leg ulcer with tendon exposure in a patient with type 2 diabetes
... a leg infected ulcer with tendon exposure. The presence of an ulcer with tendon exposure in a patient with type 2 diabetes should be always considered with caution, as it is strongly associated with ...
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A targeted interprofessional educational intervention to address therapeutic adherence of venous leg ulcer persons (TIEIVLU): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... the leg, exer- cises in the foot region, ambulating and a balanced diet rich in proteins and vitamins ...in leg ulcer healing and in the prevention of recurrent ulcers, the individual components and ...
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Patient perspectives of their leg ulcer journey.
... Data was collected using face to face unstructured interviews between June 2010 and January 2011. Individual interviews were conducted, at times and locations convenient for patients. Interviews were initiated using a ...
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Squamous cell carcinoma developed on neglected, mistreated and delayed diagnosed chronic venous leg ulcer
... venous leg ulcers (VLU), especially long-lasting non-healing ulcers, are among the risk factors for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with particularly aggressive ...left leg non-responsive to specifi c ...
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The Canadian Bandaging Trial: Evidence-informed leg ulcer care and the effectiveness of two compression technologies
... body of evidence at the Cochrane Library and elsewhere. We were unable to replicate the results of the largest UK trial, VenUS I. Within the Canadian context, the implications are that homecare authorities and commu- ...
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Nonlinear modeling of venous leg ulcer healing rates
... a delayed exponential model was used to predict time to full re-epithelialization in chronic wounds treated with electrical stimulation [11]. Exponential patterns of epithe- lialization have also been observed in corneal ...
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Assessing the value of practice-based leg ulcer education to inform recommendations for change in practice
... and leg ulcers are no exception (Wong, ...of Leg Ulcer module appeared to increase primary care nurses’ knowledge and skills, suggesting that nurses benefit from formal leg ulcer ...
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Chronic venous leg ulcer care: Putting the patient at the heart of leg ulcer care. Part 1: exploring the consultation.
... Extrapolated analysis of The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database (Guest et al, 2015), revealed that in 2012-2013 an estimated 2.2 million patients presented with a wound. Of this total, 730 000 were classified as ...
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Patient acceptability of larval therapy for leg ulcer treatment: a randomised survey to inform the sample size calculation of a randomised trial
... We have undertaken a study of the effect sizes deemed important by participants who would consider larval ther- apy for leg ulcer treatment. Our study failed to find evi- dence of a widespread resistance to ...
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VenUS IV (Venous leg Ulcer Study IV) – compression hosiery compared with compression bandaging in the treatment of venous leg ulcers: a randomised controlled trial, mixed-treatment comparison and decision-analytic model
... venous leg ulcer who are compliant with wearing compression hosiery as a maintenance ...venous leg ulcers, on whom data were received, 88% had be given prophylactic compression hosiery (level of ...
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Venous Leg Ulcer Treatment in an 85-year-old Female Patient based on Iranian Traditional Medicine in Tehran in 2016
... right leg with severe inflammation and swelling which continued near the ...right leg as a result of an infection and inflammation of the wound which causes grogginess and ...
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Pulmonary hypertension in patients with Martorell hypertensive leg ulcer: a case control study
... As shown in Figure 3a, the RV/RA gradient systolic pul- monary arterial pressure (sPAP) in patients with Martor- ell ulcer (33.8 ± 16.9 mmHg) was significantly higher than the pressure measured in the control ...
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Combined therapy in the treatment of mixed etiology leg ulcer – case report
... vative treatment is to reduce the intensity of manifestations already present and to slow down the further progression of the disease. Among the methods of conservative treatment, it is of great importance to have proper ...
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Objective evaluation for venous leg ulcer-related nociceptive pain using thermography
... There may be several reasons for the association of peri- wound temperature increase in VLU and pain presence. It is possible that inflammatory responses in the wound affect the periwound skin temperature. During the ...
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