%0 Journal Article
%T Preval¨ºncia de defici¨ºncia de vitamina D em pacientes com ¨²lceras de perna de etiologia venosa
%A Burkievcz
%A Claudine Juliana C
%A Skare
%A Thelma Larocca
%A Malafaia
%A Osvaldo
%A Nassif
%A Paulo Afonso Nunes
%A Ribas
%A Claudia Stein Gomes
%A Santos
%A Lorena Reis Pereira
%J Revista do Col¨¦gio Brasileiro de Cirurgi£¿es
%D 2012
%I Col¨¦gio Brasileiro de Cirurgi?es
%R 10.1590/S0100-69912012000100012
%X objective: to study if the prevalence of vitamin d deficiency in patients with ulcer of venous leg is higher than in the control population. methods: serum levels of vitamin d 25 oh was studied by chemiluminescence in 27 patients with chronic venous ulcer and 58 controls at the evangelical hospital of curitiba. results: the levels of 25oh vitamin d3 were below 8 ng/dl in 11.1% of ulcer patients and 3.4% of controls; between 8 and 20 ng / dl in 46.1% of ulcer patients and 25.8% of controls; between 21 and 30 ng / dl in 22.2% of ulcer patients and 27.5% of controls and above 30 ng/dl in 43.1% of controls and 18.5% of ulcer patients (p=0.04). conclusion: there is an increased prevalence of vitamin d deficiency in patients with chronic venous leg ulcers.
%K vitamin d
%K vitamin d deficiency
%K varicose ulcer
%K leg ulcer
%K wound healing.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-69912012000100012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en