Diabetes accounts for about two-thirds of lower limb amputations in Canada, according to a report released this week by the ...

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 ...

Gangrene characteristically occurs in the ... However, if the patient once succeeds in healing a transmetatarsal amputation the foot is a useful foot and stands the strain of walking for a long ...

Gangrene happens when tissues in your body die after a loss of blood flow caused by illness, injury, or infection. It usually ...

which can get infected and even lead to gangrene. More than one in 10 foot ulcers results in an amputation. There are currently 2.3 million people in the UK with Type 1 and 2 diabetes. Type 1 ...

Diabetic patients must seek immediate medical attention if they notice any changes in their feet or experience any symptoms ...

A MAN was forced to have his penis amputated after developing gangrene. The 65-year-old, who had uncontrolled type 2 diabetes and an enlarged prostate, was rushed to hospital following "excessive ...

About 50% of patients with diabetic foot infections who have foot amputations die within five years. Properly managed most can be cured, but many patients needlessly undergo amputations because of ...

A man had to have his penis amputated after it suffered gangrene - due to excessive alcohol consumption. The 65-year-old man went to A&E with a 39C fever and a "substantial" crunching sound in his ...

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 ...