The woman came to Samir Mehta’s clinic with a wound in her leg. The infection ran so deep and had destroyed so much soft ...

White's revision surgery, performed by Ayalon, went smoothly. White spent several months afterward using a wheelchair and ...

At the final examination, in both groups, 63 of 91 (69%) limbs were healed, which prevented further limb amputation. Of the 28 of 91 (31%) limbs that did not heal, 25 (89%) limbs required further ...

so your wound may not heal. Tissue damage or death (gangrene) may occur, and any existing infection may spread to your bone. This may also result in amputation. If you’re living with diabetes ...

OSF HealthCare’s Innovator of the Year is performing an operation to save limbs with animal tissue at OSF St. Francis Medical ...

April is amputation prevention awareness month. Amputation rates are increasing in The Bahamas, the Caribbean and worldwide. In the United States, 160,000 people with diabetes undergo lower extremity ...

Dr. Eric Martin, chief of vascular surgery at OSF HealthCare’s St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, is nationally recognized ...

Diabetic wounds often lead to severe complications that can result in amputations. These chronic and non-healing wounds are marked by persistent inflammation, affecting more than 6% of the global ...

Black people like Ball, outspoken father of two NBA players and a rap star, are up to four times more likely to undergo ...