Below Knee Amputation

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 Amputation -Above Knee Surgery In India

Overview

Q. What is it?

There is not enough blood getting down your leg to keep it alive. The lack of blood causes severe pain and allows serious infection to take hold. If left untreated, the leg will eventually get necrotic (will become dead) and become life threatening. The only choice is to remove the damaged part. This must be done high enough up the leg to an area that has a good blood supply to get proper healing of the stump. In your case it means an amputation through the thigh...

Types of amputation include : -

1. leg
   • amputation of digits
   • partial foot amputation (Chopart, Lisfranc, Ray)
   • ankle disarticulation (Syme,[1] Pyrogoff)
   • below-knee amputation (transtibial e.g. Burgess, Kingsley Robinson)
   • knee-bearing amputation (knee disarticulation, e.g. Gritti or Gritti-Stokes)
   • above knee amputation (transfemoral)
   • Van-ness rotation/rotationplasty (Foot being turned around and reattached to allow the ankle joint to be used as a knee.)
   • hip disarticulation
   • hemipelvectomy/hindquarter amputation
2. arm
   • amputation of digits
   • metacarpal amputation
   • wrist disarticulation
   • forearm amputation (transradial)
   • elbow disarticulation
   • above-elbow amputation (transhumeral)
   • shoulder disarticulation and forequarter amputation
   • Krukenberg procedure
3. teeth..

Symptoms

Amputation of a limb or limbs will affect people in different ways. It is a very personal loss and in many patients can feel like a bereavement. The emotional loss can be like losing a relative and it will take time to adapt to such a loss. Physically your body will be permanently altered and can affect all areas of your life. How much your amputation affects your life will to some degree depend on the extent of your physical recovery...

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