NCT02731222

Prevalence of Onychodystrophy in Patients With Chronic Venous Disease of the Lower Limbs

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to determine the degree of correlation between the clinical severity of chronic venous disease and the prevalence of onychodystrophy. The completion of the study will require a previous synthetic explanation of the aforementioned two diseases, emphasizing the factors which have an impact on the proposed analysis.

Detailed description

The ultimate goal of this work is to determine if patients with a higher clinical severity of chronic venous disease also present a higher prevalence of onychodystrophy. Chronic venous disease (CVD) is a vascular disease that manifests itself in the lower limbs and is related to a number of different clinical syndromes, all of which have venous hypertension (HTV) in common. Onychodystrophy in the lower limbs is a progressive non-infectious condition associated with various factors the prevalence of which increases with age.It is mainly an acquired condition, but it can also be congenital. It is associated to a number of factors, it can sometimes be asymptomatic and it is progressive, non transmittable and evolves at a slow pace. It is characterised by an abnormal pigmentation, changes in the shape or texture and/or the deformation of nails. The work performed was observational, cross-sectional, analytical, inferential and unicentric. In order to prove its feasibility, the researcher conducted a preliminary investigation work (pilot study) with a total of 40 patients (aged 40 to 85) who were treated at the Service of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of the Hospital de Sant Pau (Barcelona, Spain). These patients were selected to verify their data and then the researcher performed a statistical study from a descriptive and inferential point of view to find out whether there is a relation betwen the prevalence of onychodystrophy and the degree of severity of chronic venous disease. In order to minimise methodological mistakes in the outcomes and sampling, the study has been carefully defined and framed.

Conditions

• Lower Extremity Chronic Venous Insufficiency
• Onychodystrophy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	observational cross-sect. analytical inferential unicentric	collecting data from patients of the Service of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of the Hospital de Sant Pau

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-09
• Primary completion: 2015-12-17
• Completion: 2016-12-29
• First posted: 2016-04-07
• Last updated: 2017-07-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain