I frequently use Unna boots or DuoDerm or Vigilon dressings to treat chronic leg/foot ulcers. While these treatments eventually work most of the time, is there a more efficient approach? —CORBIN ...

In combined analysis (n = 39), the average wound closure rate was 98%, and all 19 patients previously diagnosed for potential amputation successfully avoided surgery. These results demonstrate ...

(HealthDay News) – A spray-based therapy containing growth-arrested allogeneic neonatal keratinocytes and fibroblasts, HP802-247, is associated with a reduction in the wound area of chronic venous leg ...

A thermal-imaging tool to screen for chronic wounds could enable nurses to identify these hard-to-heal sores during the first assessment at a person's home. Nearly half a million Australians live with ...

Conservative management remains the foundation of chronic venous insufficiency care and reduces the risk for ulceration when initiated early.

In normal conditions, contraction of lower extremity muscles and working intraluminal valves promote the forward flow of blood within veins. In venous insufficiency, reflux and/or obstruction in the ...

THE pathogenesis of chronic stasis ulcer of the leg is not well understood. It is generally accepted that an important factor is excessive venous pressure in the leg. In strong support of this concept ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The National Institutes of Health are helping to fund an evolution in medical imaging, and a University at Buffalo-led research team is leading the way. Jun Xia, PhD, associate ...

Venous ulcers are the most common type of leg ulcers, but that doesn't make them any less troubling. Most often found just above the ankle, these non-healing skin wounds can take on many shapes and ...

Venous leg ulcers constitute a significant clinical and socioeconomic challenge globally. Typically arising from chronic venous insufficiency, these ulcers not only impose a heavy burden on health ...

We all cut ourselves. Whether we’re gardening, cutting vegetables in the kitchen, riding a bike or any number of other activities, cuts, scrapes and wounds are bound to happen at some point. Sometimes ...