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Why do rural adults and racial and ethnic minorities with vascular disease get major leg amputations more often? A new study out today in Epidemiology uses AI to solve the mystery, finding an ...
On the dusty floor of a makeshift tent in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, 10-year-old Sara al-Borsh clutches a pen between her toes, carefully sketching a butterfly on the back of a ...
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Leg amputation rates caused by arterial disease are four times as high in the most disadvantaged areas in England. The new study, from the University of Sheffield, also found patients living in the ...
Above knee amputation was around four times as high in the most disadvantaged compared with the least disadvantaged areas, while below knee amputation was around three times as high.
The agency’s de novo clearance in infrapopliteal arterial disease followed a successful clinical trial of patients who received below-the-knee treatments for chronic, limb-threatening ischemia.
White had known that amputation was a risk of Charcot's foot but had hoped the day would never come. Doctors completed a below-the-knee amputation of her right leg.
TACOMA — Seven years after his left leg was amputated below the knee because of a nightmarish infection he developed inside the Pierce County Jail, Javier Tapia held his breath in a Seattle ...
Billy Monger was just 17 when his world was turned upside down by an accident that left him fighting for his life.
Surgery at a UC hospital went shockingly wrong, leading to leg amputation, lawsuit says Lisa Wolff photographed the marked difference between her husband’s two legs.
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.
THE possibility of preventing the formation of a so-called amputation neuroma on the distal end of the proximal part of a cut peripheral nerve is one that has to be commonly faced by general and or ...