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Because many diabetics take oral medication for their diabetes, absorption of these medicines is greatly affected by the delayed gastric emptying. This can lead to hypoglycemia when an oral diabetic agent is taken before a meal and does not get absorbed until hours, or sometimes days later when there is normal or low blood sugar already.
Diabetic foot ulcer is a breakdown of the skin and sometimes deeper tissues of the foot that leads to sore formation. It is thought to occur due to abnormal pressure or mechanical stress chronically applied to the foot, usually with concomitant predisposing conditions such as peripheral sensory neuropathy, peripheral motor neuropathy, autonomic neuropathy or peripheral arterial disease. [1]
Hemicorporectomy is a radical surgery in which the body below the waist is amputated, transecting the lumbar spine. This removes the legs , the genitalia (internal and external), urinary system , pelvic bones, anus , and rectum .
Kentucky woman opens up about surviving sepsis after a kidney stone infection, forcing doctors to amputate her legs. Doctor explains how it can happen. Mom, 41, has legs amputated after kidney ...
Young Palestinians with amputated and injured legs find care in US but face uncertain future ... walk into the clinic without a jaw because the healthcare system has completely collapsed and there ...
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A less common major amputation is the Van Nes rotation, or rotationplasty, i.e. the turning around and reattachment of the foot to allow the ankle joint to take over the function of the knee. Types of amputations include: An above-knee amputation partial foot amputation amputation of the lower limb distal to the ankle joint ankle disarticulation
Why a man amputated 2 good fingers. Alex Arger. ... as the two amputated fingers would often "catch onto everything" because he kept them flexed. "He won arm-wrestling games, was able to drive his ...