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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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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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The Severity of Diabetes and the Risk of Diabetic Foot Amputation: A National Cohort Study [PDF]
Endocrinology and MetabolismBackground 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 +5 more
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Major Limb Amputations: A Tertiary Hospital Experience in Northwestern Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 Major limb amputation is reported to be a major but preventable public health problem that is associated with profound economic, social and psychological effects on the patient and family especially in developing countries where the prosthetic services ...
Mbelenge, Nkinda +20 more
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Interventional Treatment Options for the Prevention of Amputation in Patients With Lower Extremity Wounds From Peripheral Arterial Disease [PDF]
Texas Heart Institute JournalBackground Peripheral arterial disease and related lower extremity wounds are prominent causes of amputation. Revascularization may reduce amputation rates or the amputation margin more distally in patients with peripheral arterial disease who have ...
Akin Torun, MD, Ulas Bildirici, MD
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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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Self-penile amputation: A case of Klingsor Syndrome
Urology Case Reports, 2021 Klingsor Syndrome is an infrequent Surgical and Psychiatric emergency. We present such a case of self-penile amputation with delayed presentation precluding re-plantation.
Rono D. Kipkemoi +3 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 +11 more
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AMPUTATION OF THE PELVIC LIMB IN GOATS [PDF]
Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, 1979 Amputation of the pelvic limb was performed on 15 native breed goats. Different surgical procedures were applied, namely diserticula tion at the hip joint, amputation at the mid femur and disarticulation at the stile.
N. A. MISK, A. HIFNY
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