Chronic Venous Ulcers An End Of Long Term Suffering

Chronic venous leg ulcers still represent a problem for an increasingly number of population1, 2. Many of patients usually undergo several operations without remarkable improvement over a long time. Post phlebitis ulcers accompany the post phlebitic Syndrome represent one of the problematic cases. In this study the authors tried to know the real reasons of development of these ulcers, then they could find out an easy solution for treating them. Patients: This study included 65 cases of chronic resistant venous ulcers. Place: These cases were treated over the period from September 2001 until September 2007 in three places, University Malaya Medical Center, UniMAS (Sarawak General Hospital), and University Technology Mara (Selayang Hospital), Malaysia. The technique which we used was based upon venous hypo-vascularization of the skin of the leg before any attempt to deal with the ulcer. Results: Results showed very good and successful healing of these ulcers in a short time evaluated by 2 to 3 weeks after surgery. Most of the cases had very long history of having these ulcers ranging from 3 to 9 years and of average 4 years. Surgery for Chronic venous leg ulcers now facilitated the perfect and effective closure which is sound and complete without recurrence if compared with other techniques as compression bandage and other methods3.