The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life

Lower extremity venous ulcers comprise a complex medical and social issue. The conservative and/or surgical management of venous ulcers is often inadequate. In addition, the psychosocial aspect of the disease is often overlooked and most often undertreated. Common symptoms such as pain, low self-est...

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Autores principales: Koupidis, Sotirios A, Paraskevas, Kosmas I, Stathopoulos, Vassilios, Mikhailidis, Dimitri P
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Publicado: Bentham Open 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19430523
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192400802010105
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author Koupidis, Sotirios A
Paraskevas, Kosmas I
Stathopoulos, Vassilios
Mikhailidis, Dimitri P
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Paraskevas, Kosmas I
Stathopoulos, Vassilios
Mikhailidis, Dimitri P
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description Lower extremity venous ulcers comprise a complex medical and social issue. The conservative and/or surgical management of venous ulcers is often inadequate. In addition, the psychosocial aspect of the disease is often overlooked and most often undertreated. Common symptoms such as pain, low self-esteem and patient isolation are usually not recognized and therefore not adequately managed. This mini-review summarizes the current data on the management of lower extremity venous ulcers and their impact on the quality of life of these patients.
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spelling pubmed-26275282009-05-08 The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life Koupidis, Sotirios A Paraskevas, Kosmas I Stathopoulos, Vassilios Mikhailidis, Dimitri P Open Cardiovasc Med J Article Lower extremity venous ulcers comprise a complex medical and social issue. The conservative and/or surgical management of venous ulcers is often inadequate. In addition, the psychosocial aspect of the disease is often overlooked and most often undertreated. Common symptoms such as pain, low self-esteem and patient isolation are usually not recognized and therefore not adequately managed. This mini-review summarizes the current data on the management of lower extremity venous ulcers and their impact on the quality of life of these patients. Bentham Open 2008-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2627528/ /pubmed/19430523 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192400802010105 Text en © Koupidis et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Article
Koupidis, Sotirios A
Paraskevas, Kosmas I
Stathopoulos, Vassilios
Mikhailidis, Dimitri P
The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life
title The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life
title_full The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life
title_fullStr The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life
title_short The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life
title_sort impact of lower extremity venous ulcers due to chronic venous insufficiency on quality of life
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19430523
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192400802010105
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