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Goals, adaptive self-regulation, and psychosocial adjustment to lower limb amputation: A longitudinal study [PDF]

, 2012
Lower limb amputation is a life-changing event that can cause significant disruptions in many important areas of existence. Although a substantial minority of individuals suffer from emotional difficulties following this procedure, most adapt ...
Coffey, Laura
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Satisfaction with cosmesis and priorities for cosmesis design reported by lower limb amputees in the United Kingdom : instrument development and results [PDF]

, 2013
Study Design: Cross sectional questionnaire study. Background: Amputee satisfaction with cosmesis and the importance they place on cosmesis design has not been published in the literature.
Corney, Jonathan, Cairns, Nicola, Murray, Kevin, McFadyen, Angus   +3 more
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Optimising the prescription and use of lower limb prosthetic technology: a mixed methods approach [PDF]

, 2010
Aim: Lower limb amputation is an increasingly prevalent surgical procedure in the Western world due to the increase of peripheral vascular disease. Not everyone who receives a prosthetic limb will benefit from its use and may abandon this expensive ...
Schaffalitzky, Elisabeth Manon
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Lower extremity amputation protocol: a pilot enhanced recovery pathway for vascular amputees

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2022
Vascular patients, an inherently older, frail population, account for >80% of major lower extremity amputations (transtibial or transfemoral) in the United States.
Leigh Ann O’Banion, MD, FACS, Yazen Qumsiyeh, MD, Heather Matheny, MD, Sammy S. Siada, DO, Yueqi Yan, PhD, Jade S. Hiramoto, MD, FACS, Cambia Rome, MD, Rachel C. Dirks, PhD, Anne Prentice, MD, FACS   +8 more
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Influence of physical capacities of males with transtibial amputation on gait adjustments on sloped surfaces [PDF]

, 2014
The aim of the study was to investigate how kinematic and kinetic adjustments between level and slope locomotion of persons with transtibial amputation are related to their individual muscular and functional capacities.
MARTINET, Noël, LANGLOIS, Karine, FODÉ, Pascale, VILLA, Coralie, BONNET, Xavier, LAVASTE, François, PILLET, Helene   +6 more
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COVID-19 associated rhabdomyolysis leading to major amputation in the absence of macrovascular thrombosis

Annals of Vascular Surgery - Brief Reports and Innovations, 2022
A 50 year old patient presented with bilateral lower extremity weakness, lethargy, and dyspnea. Nasopharyngeal swab was positive for SARS-CoV-2. She progressed to acute hypoxemic respiratory failure and hemodynamic instability requiring intubation ...
Rahul Kar, Allen G. Murga, Theodore H. Teruya, Sheela T. Patel   +3 more
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The contribution of diabetes mellitus to lower extremity amputations in four public sector hospitals in Cape Town for 2009 and 2010 [PDF]

, 2012
Includes bibliographical references.Diabetes is the most common non-communicable disease worldwide and contributes to substantial morbidity and mortality.
Dunbar, Graeme Leslie
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250 Gender Disparities in the Acquisition of Lower Extremity Prosthetics Following Major Limb Amputation

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: The time between lower extremity amputations and prosthetic acquisition profoundly influences patient rehabilitation and mortality outcomes. Our primary outcome was time to prosthetic acquisition following major limb amputation.
Julien Levy, Neil Kamdar, Widya Adidharma, Stephen Kemp, Rachel Hooper   +4 more
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Five year mortality and direct costs of care for people with diabetic foot complications are comparable to cancer

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 2020
Background In 2007, we reported a summary of data comparing diabetic foot complications to cancer. The purpose of this brief report was to refresh this with the best available data as they currently exist.
David G. Armstrong, Mark A. Swerdlow, Alexandria A. Armstrong, Michael S. Conte, William V. Padula, Sicco A. Bus   +5 more
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Endovascular versus Surgical Lower Extremity Revascularization among Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

International Journal of Nephrology, 2023
Introduction. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a high prevalence of peripheral artery disease. How best to manage lower extremity peripheral artery disease remains unclear in this patient population.
Qingzheng Chen, Jialin Han, Gomathy Parvathinathan, Elsie Ross, Margaret R. Stedman, Tara I. Chang   +5 more
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