Sökning: "leg ulcer treatment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden leg ulcer treatment.

  1. 1. Patients with chronic leg ulcer : aspects on epidemiology, aetiology, clinical history, prognosis and choice of treatment

    Författare :Olle Nelzén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  3. 2. Leg ulcer management in primary care with special reference to pinch grafting

    Författare :Rut Öien; Malmö Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; rheumatology locomotion; Skelett; muskelsystem; reumatologi; General practice; medical training; Allmän medicinsk utövning; medicinsk utbildning; muscle system; Skeleton; diameter product; grid tracing; digital planimetry; ulcer size; pain relief; vasculitis; rheumatoid arthritis; cost analysis; healing rate; pinch grafting; aetiology; prevalence; Leg ulcer; primary care;

    Sammanfattning : Wound management in primary and community care was investigated throughout a period of 12 years within a well-defined population in one county in Southern Sweden. The estimated prevalence of chronic leg and foot ulcers was 0.19% in 1998 and the mean prevalence was 0.20% during the years 1994-1998. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Assessment of venous insufficiency in patients with chronic venous leg ulcers.Venous hemodynamics before and after surgery

    Författare :Marie Magnusson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Colour Doppler Ultrasound; leg ulcer; varicose vein surgery; recurrent leg ulcers;

    Sammanfattning : Venous insufficiency in the legs is a common disease, which may be complicated by chronic leg ulcers in 1% among the population. Venous ulcer duration is often long compared to other aetiologies and for the patient it involves long periods of pain, discomfort and reduced quality of life. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Elderly patients with slow-healing leg ulcers : an embodied suffering

    Författare :Britt Ebbeskog; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :Communion; dressing change; elderly care; embodiment; intervention; lived experiences; phenomenological-hermeneutic; prevalence; nursing care; slow-healing wound; suffering and venous leg ulcer.;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate leg and foot ulcer patients, from the perspective of a population in a specific urban area, and to illuminate these individual patients' lived experience of living with slow-healing venous leg ulcers. Study (I) was a survey of chronic leg and foot ulcers and study (II) was a follow-up study of the wound healing rate and an intervention study. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Nutrition, Health and Life-Situation in Elderly Patients with Leg Ulcers

    Författare :Ulla Wissing; Per-Olof Sandman; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present work was to describe nutrition, health and life-situation over time in elderly patients with leg ulcers and to evaluate if dietary intervention could improve healing in otherwise therapy resistant venous leg ulcers. All patients, mean age 80 years (range 66-97 years), were living at home and receiving treatment for their leg u1cers within the primary health care system. LÄS MER