[Patients with vascular ulcers and cardiovascular risk factors. Case reports].
We present the case of a patient with severe obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and chronic venous insufficiency, as well as several vascular ulcers in the right extremity with complex clinical course. The importance of the treatment and follow-up of these vascular ulcers in primary care is essential to achieve healing or improvement. Because primary care centers can provide easy access and daily evaluation -if required-, the clinical course of vascular ulcers can be more favorable in this setting than in the hospital setting, where appointments are less frequent. In our case, the patient required several changes of treatment; at all times, the importance of controlling all the cardiovascular risk factors was explained to the patient. The involvement of the patient and his family in the disease, as well as follow-up in the primary care center, were essential to obtaining improvement.
Mantilla Morató
Teresa
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Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Centro de Salud Mar Báltico, Area 4, Madrid, España. tmantilla5@yahoo.es
Gómez de Celis Cornejo
María Isabel
MI
D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*