[Treatment of leg ulcers with fibrin glue].
The work is based on two years studied cases. It consists of 80 patients between 35 and 80 years old with leg ulcers (73.8% women and 26.2% men). In 80% of patients this affection is due to a venous disease. In 10% of cases the cause was an arterial insufficiency of the lower extremity. Lymphatic and extravascular diseases are rarely involved. A group of 54 patients was treated with a traditional method. In the remaining 26 patients we used fibrin glue. Leg ulcers are an evolutive chronic pathology characterized by slow recovery. This means expensive social and therapeutic costs. From this point of view the treatment with fibrin glue, weekly applied, besides reducing pain, has a favourable impact on the outcome, times of re-epithelialization are shortened.
Calabrò
B
B
Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Regione Piemonte, USSL n. 38 Ospedale Civile, Cuorgné, Torino.
Ponsetto
M
M
Greco
R
R
Peradotto
F
F
Personnettaz
E
E
Obialero
M
M
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D015718:Fibrin Tissue Adhesive / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014689:Venous Insufficiency / Q000150:complications
D015718:Fibrin Tissue Adhesive