1. Excellent news, but don't forget aspirin
    Pat Bowne Pat Bowne United States says:
    October 1, 2016 at 6:49 PM

    This is very interesting, but many patients may also benefit from a simple daily aspirin.

    Aspirin is listed as a treatment in the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care venous ulcer guideline (http://www.guideline.gov) under adjunctive interventions.
    In the article they cite as evidence (1), ulcers healed in over a third of the patients given 300 mg aspirin a day. None of the patients in the control group healed. In 2012, researchers from a hospital in Spain published a follow-up study (2), showing that daily aspirin almost halved the amount of time necessary to heal chronic wounds.

    (1) Layton, A. M., & Ibbotson, S. H. (1994). Randomised trial of oral aspirin for chronic venous leg ulcers. Lancet, 344(8916), 164–165

    (2) Del Río Solá, M. L., Antonio, J., Fajardo, G., & Vaquero Puerta, C. (2012) Influence of aspirin therapy in the ulcer associated with chronic venous insufficiency. Annals of vascular surgery, 26(5), 620–629. linkinghub.elsevier.com/.../S0890509612000568

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