Correspondence to: Romeo Bistreanu, Tg Jiu, Calea Severinului, nr.173, Gorj.E-mail:[email protected] ABSTRACT: Venous ulceration is the most undesirable consequence of exposure to the elevated venous pressure associated with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Approximately 1% of the population are at significant risk for development of venous leg ulcer and the incidence of pathology inc...

Another health economic evaluation, which dealt with a similar question in the USA, indicated with the help of a Markov model cost savings of 5,904 € per patient. Unlike the presented pilot run of the discrete event simulation model these costs refer to the lifetime costs of a venous leg ulcer and are not meant per year. Considering that the average duration of a venous leg ulcer is 8.9 years,7...

A 53-year-old man was admitted to the Tung Wah Hospital in May 1999 to receive treatment for a venous ulcer on his left leg. The ulcer measured 12 cm in diameter. Wound swab culture yielded a mixed growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and coliform bacilli. On the day after admission, maggots were found emerging from the edges of the ulcer (shown below). Hydrogen peroxide was used to irrigate the ul...

BACKGROUND Current prevalence estimates of chronic leg ulceration are frequently based on studies from the 1980s. During the last decade, major changes have occurred in the application of evidence-based practice to this condition. AIM To determine the prevalence and cause of leg ulceration in a defined geographical population after 8 years of providing standardized evidence based protocols of...

BACKGROUND Venous leg ulcers affect up to 1 per cent of people at some time in their life. These ulcers are often painful and some clinicians choose dressings to reduce the pain both during and between dressing changes. OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of dressings, local anaesthetics/analgesics for pain relief in venous leg ulceration. SEARCH STRATEGY Cochrane Wounds Group Register a...