j o u r n a l o f wo u n d c a r e vo l 1 5 , n o 8 , s e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 6 3 4 8 C ommunity leg ulcer clinics have emerged as a new approach to leg ulcer management. Studies have found that they improved healing rates1-3 when compared with individual nursing care. Such clinics provide easier access to wound care specialist nurses, increased social interaction and improved information excha...

background and objectives: the etiology, pathophysiology, nomenclature and clinical manifes-tation of solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (srus) is poorly understood. aim: to examine the pathology of mucosal changes and clinical features of this syndrome. materials and methods: the mucosal biopsies of 19 patients with clinical evidence of solitary rectal ulcer as been reviewed in accordance with the...

purpose: to compare the prevalence of glaucoma among peptic ulcer patients with or without helicobacter pylori infection. methods: among 352 patients with an indication of gasterointestinal endoscopy for peptic problems, 120 patients in 18-88 years of age were included for evaluation of glaucoma. according to the results of histopathologic and urease test, they were divided into two groups: hel...

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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare different outcome measures in the audit of management of diabetic foot ulcers RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data collected prospectively in a consecutive cohort of patients referred to a specialist multidisciplinary foot care clinic between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2003 were analyzed. A single index ulcer was selected for each patient and...

the objectives of this study were to define the clinical risk factors, microbiological spectrum, and visual outcome of bacterial keratitis at shahid sadoughi hospital (yazd, iran). a crosssectional prospective study, identified 80 cases of microbial keratitis from march 1999 to march 2001. inclusion criteria were presence of corneal stromal infiltrate in slit lamp examination, and microbiologic...

J O U R N A L O F WO U N D C A R E VO L 1 5 , N O 8 , S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 6 3 4 8 C ommunity leg ulcer clinics have emerged as a new approach to leg ulcer management. Studies have found that they improved healing rates1-3 when compared with individual nursing care. Such clinics provide easier access to wound care specialist nurses, increased social interaction and improved information excha...

background: to asses the status of two representative genes of cag pai i.e caga and cage of helicobacter pylori strains infecting iranian patients suffered from various clinical outcomes using one-step pcr. methods: a total of 120 h. pylori infected patients including non-ulcer dyspepsia, nud (n=81), peptic ulcer disease, pud (n=17), and gastric carcinoma, gc (n= 22) referred for endoscopy or g...

background :   vaculating cytotoxic a ( vaca ) gene is one of the multiple helicobacter pylori genotypes that produce a cytotoxin protein (vaca).this gene is a major cause of chronic peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between vaca gene with peptic ulcer disease (pud) and non-ulcer dyspepsia (nud).   methods :    this was a case control study...

case presentation the patient was a 45-year-old male with t8 complete paraplegia; he had developed severe pressure ulcer. the authors used lllt as a complementary treatment. they used 980 nm, continuous 6 j/cm2 for margins and 655 nm, continuous 1.8 j/cm2 for bed of the ulcer, along with intravascular laser therapy. after 24 sessions of lllt and z-plasty surgery, the ulcer healed completely. co...