Lower limb amputation is a life‐altering surgical intervention, most commonly necessitated by vascular complications, trauma or malignancy. The subsequent rehabilitation process is critical in ...

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In patients with diabetes and a prior major adverse limb event, GLP-1s were associated with better outcomes compared with DPP ...

Rates of leg and foot amputations in Illinois hospitals increased 65% between 2016 and 2023, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates ...

(HealthDay News) — Patients with diabetes and a lower extremity amputation (LEA) are more likely to die, with some of the increased risk due to diabetes-related complications, according to a study ...

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 ...

In patients with end-stage kidney disease, amputation risk is higher with diabetes versus without. (HealthDay News) — Patients with comorbid diabetes have an elevated risk for lower extremity ...

In reconstruction, the question is not whether a limb can be saved. It is whether the life attached to it can be lived. L. Scott Levin, MD, chair emeritus of orthopedic surgery and professor of ...

A new study from the University of Sheffield highlights the scale of socioeconomic disparities in leg amputation caused by arterial disease across England Lower limb amputation rates are four times as ...

When an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy who will help out by gnawing the leg off, effectively performing a lifesaving limb amputation. That's according to some new experiments ...