He has now turned his experience into a book, called Your Legs or Your Life, which he hopes will help both amputees and ...

Gangrene, or a rapidly spreading foot abscess. Sound like diseases of the past? Well, sadly not. Leg amputation is one of the ...

Doctors say 2-year-old Habiba al-Askari has days to live as gangrene creeps up her arms and legs, and only an urgent medical ...

A MAN was put into a coma and had his legs amputated after burning his thumb on a frying pan. Max Armstrong, 40, burnt ...

Peripheral artery disease is the narrowing and blocking of the arteries in the legs. This process of furring up of the blood ...

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 ...

The analysis shows that 19 per cent of patients who received a leg amputation were readmitted for another amputation or for treatment for ulcers, gangrene and infections (UGI) within 12 months.

Jim Meehan lived an active life, running marathons well into his 70s, but that came to an end when a minor injury led to gangrene in his foot, and eventually his leg had to be amputated below the ...

As the disease progresses it can cause pain at rest, foot ulcers and even gangrene, necessitating leg-saving surgery or major amputation. This end-stage of the disease is called chronic limb ...

Watching him pass away due to a lack of systemic support has left me deeply troubled,’ sergeant Park Ah-ron says.

More urgently, the Swedish national was suffering from severe gangrene in his left leg, which required immediate amputation to save his life. Without surgery, his condition was life-threatening.