Lower Extremity Amputation
Prosthetic and orthotic options for lower extremity amputation and reconstruction
... Lower extremity injury and deformity can result from a number of ...pursue amputation or reconstruction of a lower limb is challenging for both patients and ...a lower extremity ...
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Predictors of lower extremity amputation in patients with diabetic foot ulcer: findings from MEDFUN, a multi-center observational study
... increased amputation risk ten folds even after adjustment for other confounding ...increased amputation risk several ...of amputation in our study, although this relationship became attenuated on ...
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Peripheral nerve block combined with general anesthesia for lower extremity amputation in hemodialysis patients: case series
... The coefficient of variation (CV), the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean, is widely used to rep- resent the degree of variation of data. Hemodynamic instability, indicated by higher values of the CV of blood ...
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Evaluation of risk factors for lower extremity amputation in diabetic foot ulcer: a hospital based observational study in Northern India
... major lower extremity amputation, authors conclude that to decrease social-economic burden on the society and to avoid psychological trauma to the patient, amputation rate and grade of ...
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Epidemiology of diabetic foot disease and diabetes-related lower-extremity amputation in Australia: a systematic review protocol
... Data from each publication will be extracted by one in- vestigator, after which a second investigator will check the extracted data. Investigators will not extract data from an article of which they were (co-)author to ...
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Timing of access to secondary healthcare services for diabetes management and lower extremity amputation in people with diabetes: a protocol of a case–control study
... Background: Lower extremity amputation (LEA) is a complication of diabetes and a marker of the quality of diabetes care. Clinical and sociodemographic determinants of LEA in people with diabetes are ...
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Evaluation of Risk factors in diabetic foot ulcers patient as predictors of lower extremity amputation: a hospital-based case control study
... subsequent lower extremity amputation during the study period, from total amputation surgeries were initially identified some patients were subsequently excluded for the following reasons: ...
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Depression in adult males with lower extremity amputation and its bio social correlates
... individual). Lower extremity amputation (LEA) cause serious physical dis- ability and it is intuitive that adjustment to the conditions of amputation is impulsive to psychological ...
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<p>Use Of Regional Anesthesia For Lower Extremity Amputation May Reduce The Need For Perioperative Vasopressors: A Propensity Score-Matched Observational Study</p>
... Purpose: Lower extremity amputation (LEA) is associated with a high risk of postoperative mortality. The effect of type of anesthesia on postoperative mortality has been studied in various surgeries. ...
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Incidence of lower extremity amputation in the diabetic compared to the non-diabetic population: a systematic review protocol
... Background: Diabetic individuals have a largely increased risk of lower extremity amputation (LEA) compared with non-diabetic patients. Prior systematic reviews of incidence of LEA have some ...
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Lower-extremity amputation as a marker for renal and cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with long standing type 1 diabetes
... LEA is the consequence of acute and chronic podiatric complications, including diabetic neuropathy, peripheral artery disease, skin microangiopathy with impairment of skin blood flow, coagulation disorders and infection ...
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Influence of micro- and macro-vascular disease and Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 on the level of lower-extremity amputation in patients with type 2 diabetes
... Recently, a population-based study highlighted insuf- ficient screening to predict and prevent occurrence of amputation in patients with T2D [13]. In this context, the identification of relevant biomarkers could ...
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Concordance studies between hospital discharge data and medical records for the recording of lower extremity amputation and diabetes in the Republic of Ireland
... The study was undertaken in 3 counties (Cork, Kerry and Waterford) in the South of Ireland. For the first concordance study on the procedure of LEA, HIPE data was collected from 9 individual hospitals utilising HIPE for ...
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<p>Analysis of the Peri-Operative Cost of Non-Traumatic Major Lower Extremity Amputation in Jordan</p>
... of amputation (AKA or BKA), site of amputation (right or left limb), indication for amputation (CLI, ALI, or infected DFS), type of anesthesia utilized (spinal anesthesia (SA) or general anesthesia ...
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Lower extremity amputation in peripheral artery disease: improving patient outcomes
... minor amputation is defined as any procedure that results in amputation below the ankle, including the foot or ...major amputation is defined as any procedure that results in amputation at the ...
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Major lower extremity amputation: a contemporary analysis from an academic tertiary referral centre in a developing community
... for amputation, his- tory of cardiac disease, and diabetes, did not predict in- creased 1-year mortality in our patient ...after amputation, and the 1-year mortality rate was similar to that of non-diabetic ...
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Section’s osseous slice biopsy during major amputation of lower extremity: preliminary results of prospective cohort study
... In the retrospective pilot study carried out in France, the positive SOB cultures were more common than in our present study (p = 0.01). SOB cultures were positive in 42.1 % of the pilot study patients, while the micro- ...
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Primary care referral to multidisciplinary high risk foot services – too few, too late
... of lower extremity amputation increased five-fold when both no contact and severe infection occurred in combination (no contact with severe infection and amputation = 34, ...and ...
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Influence of preprocedural glycemic control on clinical outcomes of endovascular therapy in diabetic patients with lower extremity artery disease: an analysis from a Korean multicenter retrospective registry cohort
... Relatively lower incidence of amputation in our study may also have affected the ...after lower extrem- ity bypass surgery and found that poor preoperative glycemic control increased the risk of ...
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Antimicrobial prophylaxis in open lower extremity fractures
... Grade III open fractures require coverage with an aminoglycoside in addition to a first- generation cephalosporin within 3 hours of initial injury, and antibiotics should be continued f[r] ...
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