title: [Combined therapy for a vascular ulcer. 2008 Biatain First Prize. A clinical case of a patient with an infected vascular ulcer].
abstract: The use of a combined therapy which includes hydropolymeric dressings with ionic silver and dressings which release of ibuprofen together with a constant reevaluation made it possible to heal an ulcer which had afflicted a patient for 10 years. In order to succeed in doing so, medical professionals started off with the evidence that, in the complicated process which the cicatrization of long-lasting wounds difficult to cure constitutes, a series of factors involved in tissue regeneration appear which, at the same time, are not expected and which delay and slow down this process (critical colonization and infection, nutritional and metabolic state, repetitive infections, vascular state or hormonal alterations). This case story won the 2008 Biatain First Prize in the category "Clinical Case Study of a patient with an infected leg ulcer".
authors.affiliation: Sanidad de Castilla y León, Salamanca.
authors.forename: María Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Romo Sanz
authors.forename: Raul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Juárez Vela
mesh_terms: D001458:Bandages; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003663:Decision Trees; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy*