Amputations in diabetics and nondiabetics in Umeå county 1971-1977.
A consecutive series of 95 unselected patients submitted to amputation of the lower leg (59%) or at the thigh (41%) during 1971-1977 are the material of this retrospective study. Fifty-three were diabetic and 42 nondiabetic, the mean age was 77.2 and 73.1 years, respectively. There were no differences between diabetics and nondiabetics concerning age, lower leg/thigh amputations, postoperative healing, rehabilitation using prosthesis or subsequent amputation of the second leg.
D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005734:Gangrene; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013548:Sweden; D014945:Wound Healing