below-the-knee amputation

below-the-knee amputation

An elective procedure, often required for peripheral vascular disease. While BKAs are preferred by the patient—whose sense of loss is less—they often require re-amputation and the prosthesis is less stable than an above-the-knee amputation. The 5-year mortality of BKA is 11.6%, compared to 21.4% for AKA.
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The foot fits down inside a prosthesis and the procedure then functions in a similar vein to a below-the-knee amputation but with more mobility than that which is left after a full-leg amputation.
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Below-the-knee amputation allows a lower demand for energy and oxygen, and can enhance the patient's speed of mobility (Ertl, 2016).
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Here, we present a case with heel ulceration and calcaneal osteomyelitis using partial calcanectomy to facilitate wound closure as an alternative to below-the-knee amputation.
Preserve the lower limb in a patient with calcaneal osteomyelitis and severe occlusive peripheral vascular disease by partial calcanectomy
The recovery is under way, but for some areas of the country it is tantamount to comparing the difference between an above-theknee and below-the-knee amputation, rather than the saving of the limb.
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She explained: "He's nine and had a below-the-knee amputation, we put it on to freak people out!"
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Significant improvements in below-knee prostheses and important advances in surgical and postsurgical management now allow the successful performance of below-the-knee amputation in a majority of these patients (2).
Profile of below knee amputation among diabetic foot cases--hospital based study in Jamnagar, India

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