KNOWLEDGE

Venous leg ulcers are often hard to heal wounds that can develop after a minor injury and when blood doesn’t flow properly through the veins. This can be caused by reflux in any of the venous systems – whether superficial, perforator, or deep – when the valves of the veins have failed, or the vein has become obstructed. With an aggressive recurrence rate, they are one of the most common types of wounds that clinicians encounter and treat.