Recovery treatment of lower limbs trophic ulcers in patients with chronic venous insufficiency (review of literature)

Abstract

Trophic ulcers are complications of chronic venous insufficiency in 15-18% of cases and appear in 1-2% of able- bodied population. The frequency increases with age up to 4-5% among the patients aged over 65, and radical removalof the disease can be achieved only in one tenth of the patients. With that, even healed trophic ulcers recur frequently: after surgery in 4,8-31,6% of cases (according to various authors), after conservative treatment in 15-100% of cases. Main treatment modalities for trophic ulcers are medical and surgical. Recent researches necessitate including physical therapy methods into the treatment complex, as combined techniques that enable to improve results of various treatment variants.