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Frontiers in Surgery, 2022 BackgroundDiabetic foot disease is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus. Patients with diabetes mellitus have a 25% lifetime risk for developing a foot ulcer, and between 14% and 24% of patients require a major or minor lower limb amputation due ...
Xuan Liao +5 more
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Experimental evaluation of timing and preference of surgical ıntervention for crush syndrome in disaster scenarios: fasciotomy or amputation? A rat model study [PDF]
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and ResearchBackground Crush syndrome is a severe condition caused by the systemic effects of rhabdomyolysis due to prolonged muscle compression. Common in disasters like earthquakes, it poses life-threatening risks, including acute renal failure, hyperkalemia, and ...
Şehmuz Kaya +5 more
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Impact of delayed amputation on clinical outcomes compared to that of early amputation in patients with blunt polytrauma [PDF]
Scientific ReportsDelayed amputation after failed limb salvage can lead to negative clinical and functional outcomes due to complications, including re-amputation.
Jinjoo Kim +3 more
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Ileo-perineal fistula: Rare late complication after rectal amputation – clinical case [PDF]
Romanian Medical Journal, 2021 Abdominal-perineal rectal amputation retains a well-defined place in the surgical treatment of rectal cancer, despite technical advances. The authors present the case of a 67-year-old patient who developed an entero-perineal fistula involving the last ...
Andrei Iulian Toader +5 more
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Exoskeletal solutions to enable mobility with a lower leg fracture in austere environments
Wearable Technologies, 2023 The treatment and evacuation of people with lower limb fractures in austere environments presents unique challenges that assistive exoskeletal devices could address.
W. Brett Johnson +5 more
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Surgical strategies for prevention of amputation of the diabetic foot [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, 2021 Prevention of amputation has become a key objective of clinicians providing care to patients with high-risk diabetic foot problems. In this regard, the multidisciplinary diabetic foot team (MDFT) has been embraced as the most effective way to manage patients with foot ulcers, infections, and Charcot feet.
Robert G. Frykberg +6 more
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Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2022 Category: Diabetes Introduction/Purpose: Some patients with below knee (BK) amputation for treatment of ischemic and/or infectious foot disease eventually further progress to above knee (AK) amputation.
Ki Chun Kim MD +5 more
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Patients' perception and attitude to surgical amputation in Makurdi, North Central Nigeria
Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2020 Background: There has been a global rise in surgical amputations because of vascular complications of diabetes mellitus, among other factors. About 22% of patients usually decline or delay consent for the operation leading to poor outcomes.
Williams Terhemen Yongu +4 more
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Pain Research and Management, 2022 Purpose. Hemophilic osteoarthropathy (HO) is a common cause of spontaneous bleeding in hemophiliacs. Surgical procedures are necessary for patients with severe HO. As a last resort, amputation is sometimes needed to treat complex HO cases.
Yiming Xu +4 more
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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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