Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with a failed infected total knee arthroplasty were more likely to undergo an above-knee amputation ...

Above-knee amputation (AKA) is a rare but severe complication of deep infection after knee replacement surgery. Low-income patients are at increased risk of this catastrophic complication, reports a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — A study presented here showed similar complication and reoperation rates, as well as Knee Society ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the Osseoanchored Prostheses for the Rehabilitation of Amputees (OPRA) Implant System, the first implant system marketed in the U.S. for adults who ...

Kicking a ball or climbing stairs with ease after a leg amputation above the knee is now within reach. Researchers at MIT have developed a bionic knee that redefines mobility for above-the-knee ...

Leg amputation rates caused by arterial disease are four times as high in the most disadvantaged areas in England. The study, from the University of Sheffield, also found patients living in the most ...

SURGICAL opinion varies widely as to the advisability of performing below-knee amputations in limbs that exhibit diminished circulation at the level of amputation. It has been shown that below-knee ...

Three of these, nevertheless, walked with a prosthesis after the amputation, 1 below the knee on the other side and 2 above the knee. After the operation here being evaluated, 16 patients subsequently ...