Major amputation remains a significant complication of patients with diabetic foot problems. Now, research indicates the predictive factors for below-and above-the-knee amputation in these patients.

FOR more than ten years there has been a tendency to use below-the-knee rather than supracondylar amputation at the New England Deaconess Hospital in the management of diabetic gangrene when more ...

A history of diabetic foot events (ulcers/gangrene, amputation, or revascularization) is linked to around 50% higher all-cause mortality risk in type 2 diabetes (T2D). The study used data from the ...

Dr Lim Geok Leong, who has at least 40 years in medical practice, failed to refer the patient to a hospital or specialist during any of his five visits, despite the presence of conditions such as ...

Los Angeles (AP) — Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized Sunday to undergo surgery to have part of her right leg amputated because gangrene was setting in, a representative said. Doctors examined a lesion on ...

Five nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health for errors that endangered or injured residents. Regency House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Wallingford was fined ...

THE treatment of arteriosclerosis of the legs has changed considerably in the past several years, notably through the introduction of antibiotics and anticoagulants and through the recognition of the ...

LEOGANE, Haiti – The injured arrive on crutches and on stretchers, or cradled in the arms of distraught mothers. On a sun-baked soccer field turned Canadian field hospital, each new patient seems to ...