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Etiology of Amputation in Patients Presented At HHIRS Mansehra

Journal Riphah College of Rehabilitation Sciences, 2021
Background: Comprehensive physical rehabilitation services of HHIRS were established in 2006 to deal with the orthopedic trauma resulted from the 2005 earthquake.
Keramat Ullah Keramat, Mohammad Shazad Shahzad, Jamal Tariq, Abdul Haseeb Bhutta   +3 more
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Stable fixation of an osseointegated implant system for above-the-knee amputees: titel RSA and radiographic evaluation of migration and bone remodeling in 55 cases. [PDF]

, 2012
Background and purposeRehabilitation of patients with transfemoral amputations is particularly difficult due to problems in using standard socket prostheses.
Antonellis, Anne, Bragdon, Charles, Brånemark, Rickard, Kärrholm, Johan, Malchau, Henrik, Nebergall, Audrey   +5 more
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Survival to amputation in pre-antibiotic era: a case study from a Longobard necropolis (6th-8th centuries AD) [PDF]

, 2018
The Longobard necropolis of Povegliano Veronese dates from the 6th to the 8th centuries AD. Among the 164 tombs excavated, the skeleton of an older male shows a well-healed amputated right forearm.
Boggioni, Marco, Di Vincenzo, Fabio, Giostra, Caterina, Manzi, Giorgio, Massani, Danilo, Micarelli, Ileana, Paine, Robert, Papini, Andrea, Profico, Antonio, Tafuri, Mary Anne   +9 more
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Can Early Post-Operative Scoring of Non-Traumatic Amputees Decrease Rates of Revision Surgery?

Medicina
Background and Objectives: Medical registries evolved from a basic epidemiological data set to further applications allowing deriving decision making.
Vesta Brauckmann, Ole Moritz Block, Luis A. Pardo, Wolfgang Lehmann, Frank Braatz, Gunther Felmerer, Sebastian Mönnighoff, Jennifer Ernst   +7 more
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Comparison of the effect of traumatic and non-traumatic lower extremity amputations on patients' quality of life

Medicine Science
The aim is to investigate the quality of life and post-amputation adaptation of patients who have undergone amputation due to trauma and chronic diseases.
Yavuz Selim Karatekin, Harun Altinayak, Ahmet Serhat Genc, Orhan Balta   +3 more
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REPLANTATION OF THE THUMB OR REVISION OF AMPUTATION: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY [PDF]

Acta Ortopédica Brasileira
Objetive: This article presents a retrospective cohort study analyzing patients from IOT-FMUSP who underwent replantation or revision amputation procedures for traumatic thumb amputation between 2013 and 2020.
Tiago Guedes da Motta Mattar, Caio Felipe Araujo Matalani, Henrique Brito Silveira, Arthur Kayano Sargaço, Mariana Miranda Nicolosi Pessa, Fernando Vicente de Pontes, Teng Hsiang Wei, Rames Mattar Junior, Marcelo Rosa de Rezende   +8 more
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Knee-saving Amputation by Use of a Bipedicled Four-zone Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Perforator Flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2023
Summary:. Degloving traumatic lower extremity injuries can lead to an above-knee amputation with decreased functional capacity compared with below-knee amputation.
Sinem Saritas, MD, Birgitte Jul Kiil, MD, Mille Sværdborg, MD   +2 more
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Pediatric Hand Surgery Training in Nicaragua: A Sustainable Model of Surgical Education in a Resource-Poor Environment. [PDF]

, 2017
Recent reports have demonstrated that nearly two-thirds of the world's population do not have access to adequate surgical care, a burden that is borne disproportionately by residents of resource-poor countries.
James, Michelle A, Manske, Mary Claire B, Rios Roque, Jairo J, Zelaya, Gabriel Ramos   +3 more
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Mapping EQ-5D utilities to GBD 2010 and GBD 2013 disability weights : results of two pilot studies in Belgium [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Utilities and disability weights (DWs) are metrics used for calculating Quality-Adjusted Life Years and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), respectively.
Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Gielens, Leslie, Haagsma, Juanita A, Maertens de Noordhout, Charline, Plasmans, Marjanne HD, Speybroeck, Niko   +5 more
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Autobiographical memory and psychological distress in a sample of upper-limb amputees. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Amputation is a traumatic and life-changing event that can take years to adjust to. The present study (a) examines psychological adjustment in a specific trauma-exposed sample, (b) compares the phenomenology (e.g., vividness) of amputation-related ...
Martina Luchetti, Ornella Montebarocci, Nicolino Rossi, Andrea G Cutti, Angelina R Sutin   +4 more
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