The aim of this study was to investigate if compression therapy (CT) can be safely applied in diabetic patients with Venous Leg Ulcers (VLU), even when a moderate arterial impairment(defined by an Ankle-Brachial Pressure Index 0.5–0.8) occurs as in mixed leg ulcers (MLU). Materials and methods : in one of our previous publications we compared the outcomes of two groups of patients with recalcitrant leg ulcers. Seventy-one patients were affected by mixed venous and arterial impairment and 109 by isolated venous disease.
Both groups were treated by tailored inelastic CT(with compression pressure <40 mm Hg in patients with MLU and >60 mm Hg in patients with VLU)and ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) of the superficial incompetent veins with thereflux directed to the ulcer bed. In the present sub-analysis of the same patients we compared the healing time of 107 non-diabetic patients…
