Chronic wounds in the elderly: Decubitus, leg ulcers, and ulcers of rare aetiology

Decubitus ulcers.

Decubitus ulcers are frequently encountered in the elderly and in bedridden or wheelchair-bound patients. Successful treatment is often difficult and expensive. Pressure, time, and friction are the major factors involved in the development of skin ulcers with such risk factors as age, female sex, and nutritional status predisposing to their development. Complications can be life threatening. A ...

Chronic leg ulcers.

'If you chance to have in Cure an Apostume, that by the malignitie of the humors, or other evill disposition of the body changeth itselfe into a rebellious Ulcer . .. or that such an Ulcer come to thy hand from another Artist, be not out of hope to cure the same. For if Nature be not utterly thy enemy . . . proceeding as followeth, thou shalt be able to cure the disease, by the helpe of God.' J...

Chronic Venous Ulcers of the Leg

Zinc and chronic leg ulcers: a systematic review of oral zinc in the treatment of chronic leg ulcers.

Record Status This article is related to a Cochrane Protocol or Review which is published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews where it will be regularly updated. Cochrane Reviews are of a high standard and are not evaluated by CRD. The link is:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001273.pub3/abstractThis article is related to a Cochrane Protocol or Review which is pu...

Cyclin A expression in chronic leg ulcers.

Normal wound repair involves an initial inflammatory phase characterized by neutrophil infiltration and excessive protease activity, which is followed by macrophage migration, angiogenesis and keratinocyte proliferation and migration. In contrast to acute wounds, chronic ve-nous ulcers fail to follow this timely pattern of events and persist in a chronic inflammatory stage involving high protea...