During the advent of modern surgery in the 19th century, amputation for trauma and infection was common. In the days before ...

Every 30 seconds, a lower limb amputation is carried out due to diabetes throughout the world. The mortality rate due to diabetic foot gangrene is just next to cancer death rate. Gangrene can be ...

Peripheral artery disease is the narrowing and blocking of the arteries in the legs. This process of furring up of the blood ...

gangrene, or tissue necrosis and had no palpable pedal pulses. End points were healed or healing foot lesions, revascularization, major amputation, or death. One hundred consecutive limbs were ...

As the disease progresses it can cause pain at rest, foot ulcers and even gangrene, necessitating leg-saving surgery or major amputation. This end-stage of the disease is called chronic limb ...