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The Severity of Diabetes and the Risk of Diabetic Foot Amputation: A National Cohort Study [PDF]

Endocrinology and Metabolism
Background This study aimed to assess whether markers of diabetes severity could serve as predictors for foot amputation risk among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods We analyzed data from the nationally representative Korean National Health
Jin Yu, Ji-Hyun Kim, Bongseong Kim, Kyungdo Han, Seung Hwan Lee, Mee Kyoung Kim   +5 more
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Transtibial Amputation with Removal of the Tibial Intramedullary Nail: Hardware Removal in a Retrograde Manner

Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2021
Transtibial amputation is the preferred strategy for treating a diabetic foot with an infection and necrosis. However, if a tibial intramedullary nail was previously inserted into the ipsilateral lower extremity, the nail must be removed to perform the ...
Youn-Ho Choi, DoJoon Park
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Surgical Management of Traumatic Penile Amputation: A Case Report and Review of the World Literature

Sexual Medicine, 2015
Introduction: There is paucity of case reports that describe the successful reimplantation of a penis after amputation. We sought to report on self-inflicted penile amputation and comment on its surgical management and review current literature.
Omer A. Raheem, MD, Hossein S. Mirheydar, MD, Nishant D. Patel, MD, Sunil H. Patel, MD, Ahmed Suliman, MD, Jill C. Buckley, MD, FACS   +5 more
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Interventional‐ and amputation‐stage muscle proteomes in the chronically threatened ischemic limb

Clinical and Translational Medicine, 2022
Background Despite improved surgical approaches for chronic limb‐threatening ischemia (CLTI), amputation rates remain high and contributing tissue‐level factors remain unknown.
Terence E. Ryan, Kyoungrae Kim, Salvatore T. Scali, Scott A. Berceli, Trace Thome, Zachary R. Salyers, Kerri A. O'Malley, Thomas D. Green, Reema Karnekar, Kelsey H. Fisher‐Wellman, Dean J. Yamaguchi, Joseph M. McClung   +11 more
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Distal Symes amputation of the 5th toe – A case series highlighting treatment of tip of toe pathologies including neuropathic ulceration with chronic osteomyelitis, gangrene, phalangeal fracture nonunion, and adducto varus hammertoe with Lister's corn

Foot & Ankle Surgery: Techniques, Reports & Cases, 2021
Distal Symes amputation is commonly performed on the hallux and central toes but this procedure is not generally associated with the 5th toe. We present a case series of four patients who underwent distal Symes amputation to successfully treat tip of 5th
Troy J. Boffeli, DPM, FACFAS, Abimbola O. Johnson, DPM   +1 more
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Limb salvage versus amputation in patients with osteosarcoma of the extremities: an update in the modern era using the National Cancer Database

BMC Cancer, 2020
Background Historically, amputation was the primary surgical treatment for osteosarcoma of the extremities; however, with advancements in surgical techniques and chemotherapies limb salvage has replaced amputation as the dominant treatment paradigm. This
Daniel R. Evans, Alexander L. Lazarides, Julia D. Visgauss, Jason A. Somarelli, Dan G. Blazer, Brian E. Brigman, William C. Eward   +6 more
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Earliest evidence for surgical amputation

, 2022
Abstract The prevailing view regarding the evolution of medicine is that the emergence of agricultural societies around 10,000 years ago (the ‘Neolithic Revolution’) gave rise to a host of health problems that were previously unknown among non-sedentary foraging populations, stimulating the first major innovations in prehistoric medico-socio ...
Tim Maloney, India Dilkes-Hall, Melandri Vlok, Adhi Oktaviana, Pindi Setiawan, Andika Priyatno, Marlon Ririmasse, I. Made Geria, Muslimin Effendy, Budi Istiawan, Falentinus Atmoko, Shinatria Adhityatama, Ian Moffat, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Adam Brumm, Maxime Aubert   +15 more
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Surgical revascularization versus amputation for peripheral vascular disease in dialysis patients: a cohort study

BMC Nephrology, 2005
Background Surgical treatment of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) in dialysis patients is controversial. Methods We examined the post-operative morbidity and mortality of surgical revascularization or amputation for PVD in a retrospective analysis of ...
Ramkumar Nirupama, Pappas Lisa M, Logar Christine M, Beddhu Srinivasan   +3 more
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Amputations in general surgical practice

Annals of King Edward Medical University, 2016
Amputation is still often viewed as a failure of treatment. The responsibility for performing an amputation may even fall on the most junior member of the surgical team. Whatever the reason for extremity amputation, it should not be viewed as a failure of treatment.
Intesarur Rashid Khan, Mohammad Akmal Shafiq, Khalid Irshad   +2 more
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Surgical prevention of terminal neuroma and phantom limb pain: a literature review

Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2021
The incidence of extremity amputation is estimated at about 200,000 cases annually. Over 25% of patients suffer from terminal neuroma or phantom limb pain (TNPLP), resulting in pain, inability to wear a prosthetic device, and lost work.
Ronald N. Bogdasarian, Steven B. Cai, Bao Ngoc N. Tran, Ashley Ignatiuk, Edward S. Lee   +4 more
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