Skin ulcers are open sores resulting from impaired blood flow or prolonged pressure, commonly affecting legs and feet.

Venous ulcers are the most common type of leg ulcers, but that doesn't make them any less troubling. Most often found just above the ankle, these non-healing skin wounds can take on many shapes and ...

A "spray-on skin" which coats a wound with a layer of skin cells could help healing, according to US and Canadian researchers. The spray was tested on 228 people with leg ulcers, which are painful ...

A “spray-on skin” could help treat leg ulcers more effectively than traditional wound dressings, according to recent tests. The spray, which is made by Texas-based Healthpoint Biotherapeutics, ...

The treatment, which consists of skin cells (keratinocytes and fibroblasts) suspended in a mixture of different types of proteins associated with blood clotting, was tested on a group of 228 patients ...

A potential breakthrough in treatment for venous leg ulcers has given us a promising look into the future. The new treatment is called spray-on-skin, and a recent study in The Lancet finds that it ...

A leg ulcer can be understood as a break in the skin, typically located on the feet or the lower part of the leg. Leg ulcers are generally diagnosed based on their appearance, though this can be ...

A 54-year-old man of Persian origin presented to our department with a 1-year history of ulcers on the right leg that had been unresponsive to numerous topical treatments, accompanied by lymphedema of ...

If you’ve had a blood clot in a vein, also known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), you could have symptoms that linger after you’ve recovered from the clot. It’s a condition called post-thrombotic ...

A novel spray-on skin treatment consisting of living cells made by Smith & Nephew, which is designed to work with the body’s own cells to help heal leg ulcers, has failed in a late-stage clinical ...

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