VenUS II: a randomised controlled trial of larval therapy in the management of leg ulcers

Dumville JC, Worthy G, Soares MO, Bland JM, Cullum N, Dowson C, Iglesias C, McCaughan D, Mitchell JL, Nelson EA, Torgerson DJ
Record ID 32005001016
English
Authors' recommendations: Study found that larval therapy significantly reduced the time to debridement of sloughy and/or necrotic chronic venous and mixed venous/arterial leg ulcers compared with hydrogel, but did not significantly increase the rate of healing. It was impossible to distinguish between larval therapy and hydrogel in terms of cost-effectiveness
Details
Project Status: Completed
URL for project: http://www.hta.ac.uk/1339
Year Published: 2009
English language abstract: An English language summary is available
Publication Type: Not Assigned
Country: England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Animals
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Diptera
  • Female
  • Larva
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Wound Healing
  • Young Adult
  • Debridement
  • Leg Ulcer
Contact
Organisation Name: NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme
Contact Address: NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name: journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email: journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Copyright: 2009 Queen's Printer and Controller of HMSO
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