Prediction of Amputation Wound Healing
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 116 (1) , 80-83
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1981.01380130056013
Abstract
• Segmental limb blood pressures (BPs) measured by Doppler ultrasound and digit photoplethysmography were used to define hemodynamic correlates of wound healing in 122 lower-extremity amputations for ischemia. Healing of digit or transmetatarsal amputations was influenced by the presence of diabetes and correlated better with digit pulsation and BP than with ankle pressure. Healing of below-knee amputation did not correlate with segmental limb BPs. In the absence of an absolute threshold to predict wound healing or failure, caution is urged in using hemodynamic indices to select the level of amputation for arterial insufficiency. (Arch Surg 116:80-83, 1981)This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Minor forefoot amputation in patients with low ankle pressureThe American Journal of Surgery, 1977