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Avoiding amputation using the Venturi pump to treat a woman with an infected ulcer and complex comorbidities

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Avoiding amputation using the Venturi pump to treat a woman with an infected ulcer and complex comorbidities

David Gray, Jackie Sopel, Jane Tait
31 May 2008

This case report examines the care of a 77-year-old woman with diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, kidney disease and CREST (calcinosis, Raynaud phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia) syndrome. The patient had a long-standing history of leg ulceration and presented with an infected, circumferential leg ulcer.

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