title: [Enhancing the healing of venous crural ulceration after surgical treatment with high voltage stimulation].
abstract: The objective of the study was to evaluate the influence of a high voltage stimulation on the process of healing of crural ulcerations after causal surgical treatment. Two comparative groups of patients, A and B, were made at random from patients with venous crural ulcers, who had been earlier operated by Babcock' method. The group A consisted of 12, and the group B--13 patients. The patients in two comparative groups were treated pharmacologically. Ulcerations at the patients in the group A were additionally treated with the high voltage stimulation. Changes of the area, length, width, and volume of the tissue defect after the high voltage stimulation were assessed. Weekly changes of the above parameters were determined as well. After the therapy there was a statistically significant decrease of the total and pus-covered areas, length, width and volume of ulcerations in both groups, while there was no statistically significant difference--except pus-covered areas--between the groups observed. Only the reduction of pus-covered area in the group A was statistically significantly faster than in the group B.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Biofizyki Lekarskiej Slaskiej AM w Katowicach. biofizligota@slam.katowice.pl
authors.forename: Jakub
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taradaj
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Franek
authors.forename: Lech
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cierpka
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Błaszczak
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taradaj
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D014945:Wound Healing