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Risk factors for re-amputation and major amputation following diabetic foot amputation: a clinical and socioeconomic perspective [PDF]
BMC SurgeryBackground Diabetic foot amputation (DFA) is a severe complication of diabetes mellitus, and many patients require subsequent procedures because of recurrence or progression of ischemia.
Yeongchan Kim, Hongki Park
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Neonatal Wet Gangrene With Early Auto‐Amputation in a Resource‐Limited Setting With Incomplete Etiologic Workup: A Case Report [PDF]
Clinical Case ReportsNeonatal limb gangrene with auto‐amputation is rare and often idiopathic. Early recognition, prompt referral, and thorough etiologic workup—despite resource limitations—are critical.
Milki Tufa Feyisa +7 more
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Efficacy analysis of early incision and drainage on necrotizing fasciitis, a retrospective study [PDF]
BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening infectious disease, and extensive debridement, as the primary surgical approach, poses significant risks for advanced-stage patients. Early incision and drainage is a common treatment for soft tissue
Zixin Chai +8 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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Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports, 2021 Forequarter amputation is a very demolitive surgical procedure that affects the quality of life and it is performed when the tumour involves the proximal end of homerus and the shoulder.
Claudia Di Prata +5 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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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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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.
Frykberg, Robert G. +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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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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