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Wool-derived keratin dressings versus usual care dressings for treatment of slow healing venous leg ulceration: a randomised controlled trial (Keratin4VLU).


ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of a keratin dressing for treating slow-to-heal venous leg ulcers (VLU) on VLU healing. DESIGN:Pragmatic parallel group randomised controlled trial. SETTING:Community-dwelling participants. PARTICIPANTS:People aged 18 or more years with VLU (either present for more than 26 weeks or ulcer area larger than 5 cm2 or both). INTERVENTION:Wool-derived keratin dressing or usual care formulary of non-medicated dressings, on a background treatment with compression. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES:Healing at 24 weeks based on blinded assessment of ulcer photographs. Other outcomes included time to complete healing, change in ulcer area to 24 weeks, change in health-related quality of life and incidence of adverse events. RESULTS:We screened 1068 patients with VLU and randomised 143 participants (51.1% of target recruitment), 71 to the keratin dressing group and 72 to the usual care group.The mean age was 66.1 years (SD 15.9) and 53 participants (37.1%) were women. There were no significant differences between the groups on the primary outcome (risk difference -6.4%, 95% CI -22.5% to 9.7%), change in ulcer area (-1.9 cm2, 95% CI -16.5 to 12.8 cm2), time to complete healing (HR 0.80, 95% CI 0.52 to 1.23) or the incidence of adverse events (incidence rate ratio 1.19, 95% CI 0.89 to 1.59) in the intention-to-treat analyses. However, the direction of effect on the primary outcome was reversed in a per protocol analysis specified a priori (risk difference 6.2%, 95% CI -12.4% to 24.9%). CONCLUSION:The effect of adding a keratin dressing to the treatment regimen for prognostically slow-to-heal VLU remains unclear. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER:NCT02896725.

SUBMITTER: Jull A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7375503 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Wool-derived keratin dressings versus usual care dressings for treatment of slow healing venous leg ulceration: a randomised controlled trial (Keratin4VLU).

Jull Andrew A   Wadham Angela A   Bullen Chris C   Parag Varsha V   Weller Carolina C   Waters Jill J  

BMJ open 20200720 7


<h4>Objective</h4>To determine the effect of a keratin dressing for treating slow-to-heal venous leg ulcers (VLU) on VLU healing.<h4>Design</h4>Pragmatic parallel group randomised controlled trial.<h4>Setting</h4>Community-dwelling participants.<h4>Participants</h4>People aged 18 or more years with VLU (either present for more than 26 weeks or ulcer area larger than 5 cm<sup>2</sup> or both).<h4>Intervention</h4>Wool-derived keratin dressing or usual care formulary of non-medicated dressings, on  ...[more]

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