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Below-the-knee amputation was rarely done for diabetic gangrene before the advent of antibiotics and improved diabetic care. Its advantages as compared with low-thigh amputation are many.

Because of a gangrenous upper flap of the Syme-amputation stump, a below-knee amputation was carried out on April 13, 1961. In this incision staphylococcal infection also developed and failed to heal.

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Drug Watchdog is appealing to a person who after using the type two diabetes drug called Invokana suffered a below the knee leg amputation to call ...

Doctors completed a below-the-knee amputation of her right leg. At first, things were going well. But as White tried to heal, she began to struggle with pain around the site of the amputation.