TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonoperative Management of Venous Ulcers and the Emerging Role of Bioengineered Skin Substitutes
AU - Lam, Everett Y.
AU - Moneta, Gregory (Greg)
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Chronic venous ulcers are a common medical problem that have a dramatic medical, economic, and psychosocial impact on patients. Nonoperative therapy has been proven to be effective in controlling the symproms of chronic venous insufficiency and promoting healing of chronic venous leg ulcers. The mainstays of nonoperative treatment continue to be leg elevation and compression therapy. Recently, bioengineered skin substitutes, ranging from an epidermal or dermal layer to a bilayered living skin construct, have been developed to aid in local wound healing and represent an added nonoperative treatment option for venous ulcers.
AB - Chronic venous ulcers are a common medical problem that have a dramatic medical, economic, and psychosocial impact on patients. Nonoperative therapy has been proven to be effective in controlling the symproms of chronic venous insufficiency and promoting healing of chronic venous leg ulcers. The mainstays of nonoperative treatment continue to be leg elevation and compression therapy. Recently, bioengineered skin substitutes, ranging from an epidermal or dermal layer to a bilayered living skin construct, have been developed to aid in local wound healing and represent an added nonoperative treatment option for venous ulcers.
KW - nonoperative treatment
KW - skin substitutes
KW - Venous ulcer
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U2 - 10.1177/153100350001300213
DO - 10.1177/153100350001300213
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84993711439
VL - 13
SP - 69
EP - 81
JO - Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
JF - Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
SN - 1531-0035
IS - 2
ER -