VLU

The Use of an Antimicrobial Moisture Management Dressing Paired With a Gellable Fiber Technology under a Two-layer Compression System in the Treatment of Heavily Exudating VLUs Improves Clinical Outcomes and Cost Savings.

Introduction: Chronic venous insufficiency is the 7th most common chronic disease and is the underlying cause of 95% of leg ulcers1. Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are difficult to treat and ev...

08/19/2021

Combining Advanced Treatment Modalities for Complex Wounds

Background: As wound care practitioners we are facing increasing number of patients with complex wounds and high recurrence rates, especially DFU`s or VLU`s. There are many treatment opti...

11/23/2020

Letters to the Editor

Letter Response: A literature review of pharmacological agents to improve venous leg ulcer healing

11/05/2020

M. Mark Melin

Steven M. Dean

Please accept our congratulations and appreciation for the authors’ article on an underrecognized option for medical adjunctive therapy of venous leg ulcers (VLUs) published in the July 2020 issue of Wounds. The authors’ paper highlights and...

Please accept our...

11/05/2020

Wounds

Phase 1 Open-label Preliminary Assessment of a Thin, Flexible Pressure Sensor for Therapeutic Compression Garments Using a Cohort of Healthy Adults

Background: Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are the most common wounds of the lower extremities (LEs), affecting approximately 600,000 patients at a cost of $2.5-3.5 billion USD annually. L...

08/19/2019

Clinical Cases

Closure of Refractory DFUs and Venous Stasis Leg Ulcers Using an Autologous Homologous Skin Construct

07/16/2019

Dr. Armstrong reports the results of a pilot study evaluating 11 patients with diabetic foot ulcers and 5 with venous stasis leg ulcers (all being refractory to at least 1 month of conservative care) that were treated with an autologous...

Dr. Armstrong reports the...

07/16/2019

Wounds