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An integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer
Venous ulcers (stasis ulcers, varicose ulcers) are the wounds occurring due to inappropriate functioning of venous valves, usually of the legs. It is one of the most serious chronic venous insufficiency complications. The overall incidence rate is 0.76% in men and 1.42% in women. When a venous valve...
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author | Patil, Deepa Jahagirdhar, Sangeeta H. Toshikhane, Hemant D. |
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description | Venous ulcers (stasis ulcers, varicose ulcers) are the wounds occurring due to inappropriate functioning of venous valves, usually of the legs. It is one of the most serious chronic venous insufficiency complications. The overall incidence rate is 0.76% in men and 1.42% in women. When a venous valve gets damaged, it prevents the backflow of blood, which causes pressure in the veins that leads to hypertension and, in turn, venous ulcers. These are mostly along the medial distal leg, which is often very painful, can bleed, and get infected. Treating varicose ulcers is a difficult task to the physician and a nightmare to the suffering patients, though a good number of the treatment principles are mentioned and practiced in allied sciences. In Ayurveda, this condition is considered as duṣṭa vraṇa. It can be managed with the specific s’odhana therapy. So, the same treatment protocol was used to treat the case discussed here, i.e. with Nitya virecana and by Basti karma. The wound was successfully treated and, therefore, is discussed in detail. |
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spelling | pubmed-39025372014-02-05 An integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer Patil, Deepa Jahagirdhar, Sangeeta H. Toshikhane, Hemant D. Anc Sci Life Case Report Venous ulcers (stasis ulcers, varicose ulcers) are the wounds occurring due to inappropriate functioning of venous valves, usually of the legs. It is one of the most serious chronic venous insufficiency complications. The overall incidence rate is 0.76% in men and 1.42% in women. When a venous valve gets damaged, it prevents the backflow of blood, which causes pressure in the veins that leads to hypertension and, in turn, venous ulcers. These are mostly along the medial distal leg, which is often very painful, can bleed, and get infected. Treating varicose ulcers is a difficult task to the physician and a nightmare to the suffering patients, though a good number of the treatment principles are mentioned and practiced in allied sciences. In Ayurveda, this condition is considered as duṣṭa vraṇa. It can be managed with the specific s’odhana therapy. So, the same treatment protocol was used to treat the case discussed here, i.e. with Nitya virecana and by Basti karma. The wound was successfully treated and, therefore, is discussed in detail. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3902537/ /pubmed/24501445 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0257-7941.123000 Text en Copyright: © Ancient Science of Life http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Patil, Deepa Jahagirdhar, Sangeeta H. Toshikhane, Hemant D. An integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer |
title | An integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer |
title_full | An integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer |
title_fullStr | An integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer |
title_full_unstemmed | An integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer |
title_short | An integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer |
title_sort | integrated approach in the treatment of varicose ulcer |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3902537/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24501445 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0257-7941.123000 |
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