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    Amputations and Rehabilitation

    Amputation of a lower limb is a life-altering event and is often perceived as a failure of conservative treatment or an inevitable, unpreventable consequence of diabetes. This is erroneous, and an amputation s...

    John T. Marcoux, Thao Nguyen, Lars Stangenberg in The Diabetic Foot (2024)

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    Clinical Presentation, Etiology, and Diagnostic Considerations

    Chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) is a rare disease that affects about 1 in 100,000 individuals. It is usually the result of atherosclerotic changes of the aorta at the ostia of the mesenteric vessels. This le...

    Lars Stangenberg, Marc L. Schermerhorn in Mesenteric Vascular Disease (2015)