Risk Factors for Healing and Recurrence of Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Barwell ◽  
A. S. K. Ghauri ◽  
M. Taylor ◽  
J. Deacon ◽  
C. Wakely ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Leg Ulcers ◽  
Venous Leg Ulcers

scholarly journals Risk Factors for Delayed Healing and Recurrence of Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers—An Analysis of 1324 Legs

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Gohel ◽  
M. Taylor ◽  
J.J. Earnshaw ◽  
B.P. Heather ◽  
K.R. Poskitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Leg Ulcers ◽  
Venous Leg Ulcers ◽  
Delayed Healing

Risk factors for delayed healing and long-term recurrence in chronic venous leg ulcers

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-501
Author(s):  
J. R. Barwell ◽  
M. Taylor ◽  
A. S. K. Ghauri ◽  
C. Bronder ◽  
L. Phillips ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Leg Ulcers ◽  
Venous Leg Ulcers ◽  
Delayed Healing

Risk Factors for Healing and Recurrence of Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Barwell ◽  
A. S. K. Ghauri ◽  
M. Taylor ◽  
J. Deacon ◽  
C. Wakely ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Potential Risk ◽  
Leg Ulcer ◽  
Ulcer Recurrence ◽  
Leg Ulcers ◽  
Venous Reflux ◽  
Venous Leg Ulcers ◽  
Duplex Imaging ◽  
Delayed Healing ◽  
Potential Risk Factors

Objective: To identify independent risk factors for delayed healing and increased recurrence of chronic venous leg ulcers. Design: Prospective study. Setting: Community-based leg ulcer service. Patients: Six hundred and thirty-three limbs in 587 consecutive patients with an ankle-brachial pressure index (ABPI) ≥0.85. Method: Potential risk factors were initially assessed in a one-stop clinic incorporating clinical evaluation, ABPI and venous duplex imaging. Limbs were treated within a defined protocol. Twenty-four-week healing and 3-year ulcer recurrence rates were determined. Results: Of 12 potential risk factors age ( p< 0.001), ulcer chronicity ( p< 0.001) and popliteal vein reflux ( p< 0.005) were independent risks for delayed healing. Of 13 potential risk factors rheumatoid arthritis ( p<0.005) and healing time ( p < 0.05) were independent risks for ulcer recurrence. Isolated superficial venous reflux treated by saphenous vein surgery predicted reduced ulcer recurrence ( p< 0.005). Conclusion: Targeting in primary care of ulcer patients with specific characteristics might encourage earlier referral and appropriate resource management. Leg ulcer patients with superficial venous reflux might benefit from surgical correction.

The Epidemiology of Chronic Venous Diseases

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Adhikari ◽  
M. H. Criqui ◽  
V. Wooll ◽  
J. O. Denenberg ◽  
A. Fronek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Chronic Venous Insufficiency ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Venous Insufficiency ◽  
Varicose Veins ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Venous Disease ◽  
Leg Ulcers ◽  
Venous Leg Ulcers ◽  
Venous Diseases

Objective: To review the prevalence of and risk factors for varicose veins, chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) and venous leg ulcers. Data sources: MEDLINE was searched for the terms prevalence and varicose veins, chronic venous insufficiency, or venous leg ulcers. Study selection: The extant world literature (1966–1999) with a minimum of an available English abstract was collected. Ninety-nine studies were reviewed. Data extraction: Data were extracted on prevalence of diseases of the veins in the lower limb, age and gender of the subject populations, and other risk factors for those diseases examined by the original researchers. Data synthesis: The two most prominent risk factors for venous disease are increasing age and female gender. Additional risk factors for venous disease with at least some documentation in the literature include dietary patterns, obesity, physical activity, standing occupations, constrictive clothing, connective tissue laxity, and hormonal differences, including pregnancy. Family history is also a prominent risk factor, suggesting a genetic component. Conclusions: Varicose veins are found more commonly in women, and with increased age. The increase with age is linear, suggesting a constant incidence and cumulative prevalence. CVI is also more common in women and increases with age, but data are limited. Venous leg ulcers are much less common than varicose veins or CVI and show less of a female preponderance, but increase exponentially with age, suggesting a true increasing incidence with age.

Risk factors for delayed healing in venous leg ulcers: a review of the literature

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 967-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. Parker ◽  
K. J. Finlayson ◽  
P. Shuter ◽  
H. E. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Leg Ulcers ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Venous Leg Ulcers ◽  
Delayed Healing

scholarly journals Risk factors related to the failure of venous leg ulcers to heal with compression treatment

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1242-1247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan J. Milic ◽  
Sasa S. Zivic ◽  
Dragan C. Bogdanovic ◽  
Nevena D. Karanovic ◽  
Zoran V. Golubovic
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Leg Ulcers ◽  
Venous Leg Ulcers ◽  
Compression Treatment
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