Without proper treatment, these issues can worsen and ultimately lead to limb amputation. Understanding the risk factors is crucial to prevention and early intervention. Individuals at higher risk ...

A major investment in research, education, and clinical care is on its way to University Hospitals intended to help pioneer the field of limb preservation.

Gangrene, or a rapidly spreading foot abscess. Sound like diseases of the past? Well, sadly not. Leg amputation is one ... artery disease—chronic limb-threatening ischemia, where the leg is ...

St. Luke’s physicians are offering a new minimally invasive procedure that offers hope to persons facing likely amputation of ...

This saved the patient from a major amputation. Many persons experiencing a totally blocked blood supply to their leg eventually must undergo major lower extremity amputation. These advanced ...

Lower limb amputations facilitated by surgeons at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) - one of the biggest tertiary academic hospitals in the country - is increasing rapidly. And the question researchers ...