For patients with chronic leg edema and recurrent cellulitis, risk for future cellulitis is reduced by 77% by wearing compression stockings or wraps, researchers report. The effect was so striking ...

Patients with chronic edema of the leg had lower recurrence of cellulitis with compression therapy when compared with conservative treatment, a new study has found. Chronic edema is a risk factor for ...

Leg ulcers form when skin on your leg breaks open. These breaks or sores let air and bacteria travel into your skin’s tissue. For most people, leg ulcers will heal on their own and won’t need medical ...

Cellulitis is a deep type of skin infection that can spread. It typically occurs after a cut or break in the skin, which allows bacteria to get inside. Bug bites and stings are a potential cause. Any ...

Chronic vein problems are very common and often unrecognized as a threat to health. When the valves in your veins stop working, blood pools in the lower leg area and pressure builds up in the vein.

Cellulitis is a common bacterial skin infection. It can occur when bacteria enter your body because of a cut, scrape, or break in the skin, such as a bug bite. Cellulitis affects all three layers of ...

Signs that cellulitis is healing include reduced skin discoloration, less pain, decreased heat, and more. An area that a doctor has marked on the skin to monitor the infection may also decrease in ...

The sore on Catrina Hurlburt's leg simply wouldn't heal. Complications from a 2002 car accident left Hurlburt, a borderline diabetic, with recurring cellulitis and staph infections. One of those ...

Americans are living longer, but living longer means the aging population is at greater risk for acquiring disease. For those with high cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure, Peripheral Artery ...

(HealthDay News) – A spray-based therapy containing growth-arrested allogeneic neonatal keratinocytes and fibroblasts, HP802-247, is associated with a reduction in the wound area of chronic venous leg ...

M.P., a 27-year-old man of Italian descent, born in the United States, was first seen on October 21, 1954, at the New York Skin and Cancer Unit with the complaint of persistent ulcerations of the legs ...