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Given the prevalence of diabetes in the United States, the fact that the disease is the number one cause of lower extremity amputation is an extremely serious matter. Worldwide, a lower limb is lost ...

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 ...

Knee-specific combat trauma does not increase radiographic knee OA progression in the short term, but lower-limb loss is ...

BERLIN – Use of diuretics may increase the risk for lower limb amputations in people with diabetes, and the same hypovolemic effect might help explain the increased risk of amputations seen with the ...

ATLANTA — Leg and foot amputations among patients diagnosed with diabetes saw a dramatic decline between 1996 and 2008, thanks to improvements in blood-sugar control, foot care and diabetes management ...

A European Medicines Agency (EMA) panel has determined that a warning stating that the sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors for type 2 diabetes may increase the risk for lower-limb ...

A new study, led by researchers from the University of Sheffield and published in BJS Open, highlights the urgent need to improve care and prevention strategies, especially for people with diabetes.

THE emotional responses of people to the loss of an extremity have been dealt with by a number of investigators. In most of these studies the subjects have been young, and attention has been chiefly ...

The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital secures court approval for a life-saving amputation on a 6-year-old girl, ...