Arterial vs. Venous Ulcers
The most common location for a venous ulcer
What is near the medial malleolous?
Used with CEAP score to determine the best possible treatment for the patient
What is the VCSS score?
*Venous Clinical Severity Score
First described in pregnant and post partum women; clinical signs include painful, white edema
What is Phlegmasia Alba Dolens
Another name for Coumadin
What is Warfarin?
This measures the ability to find disease when disease is present
What is sensitivity?
These ulcers have very little bleeding
What is an arterial ulcer?
Virchow’s triad consists of
What is 1) stasis, 2) vessel wall injury, & 3) hypercoaguability
This pathology involve thrombus within deep, superficial, and collateral veins. It is a surgical emergency
What is Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens?
This procedure makes small micro incisions in the skin in order to remove large varicose veins; done when the vein is too large to inject
What is Phlebectomy?
This makes a test a “gold standard”
What is having a long history of accuracy?
These ulcers are usually shallow and irregularly shaped
What is a venous ulcer?
The number one cause of thrombosis
What is injury to intima?
This syndrome occurs after chronic venous disease and causes chronic leg pain and tenderness, swelling/edema, varicose veins, stasis hyperpigmentation, dermatitis, itching and ulcers
What is Post Thrombotic Syndrome?
This procedure treats venous stasis ulcers and consists of applying a layer of living cells and structural proteins on top of large non-healing ulcers
What is Apligraf?
An ultrasound shows a normal ICA and an angiogram demonstrates no disease present within the ICA. This is a
What is a true negative
Patient’s with these kind of ulcers will often have hair loss and scaly skin
What is an arterial ulcer?
Calf discomfort on passive dorsiflexion
What is Homan’s sign?
The biproduct formed in the body when a clot such as a DVT or PE is broken down
What is D-Dimer?
An UNNA Boot is used to treat
What is venous stasis ulcers?
The systematic approach of evaluation and monitoring of services to ensure the standards of quality are being measured and demonstrates acceptable results is known as
What is QA?
This term is often associated with arterial ulcers and means “lack of sensation”
What is parathesia?
The term for very sluggish flow
What is Rouleau formation?
The most reliable finding to diagnose thrombus in a vein
What is compressibility?
This procedure uses thrombolytic drugs to dissolve blood clots by activating plasminogen
What is thrombolysis?
The Chi Square test compares
What is the difference between what you expect against what you actually observe?