Tag: peripheral artery disease

According to a new study, amputation rates among people with advanced vascular disease have dropped sharply since the Affordable Care ...

Want a user-friendly summary of amputee-related research and clinical data? Look no further than the annual report released last week ...

A wave of emerging research indicates that artificial intelligence may help doctors recognize PAD-related limb-loss risk factors with greater speed, ...

The new Lower Extremity Amputation Procotol (LEAP) is designed to promote prosthesis adoption by standardizing post-surgical treatment and rehabilitation for ...

Artherectomies and other vascular interventions can preserve limbs that are at risk of being lost. But when those procedures are ...

Current health care models don't adequately measure the risks of limb loss in diabetes patients, according to a new paper ...

The Podimetrics SmartMat, an early-detection system for diabetic foot ulcers, could prevent thousands of amputations every year. Here's how it ...

Earlier this year, the American Heart Association threw its weight behind a campaign to drastically reduce limb loss related to ...

Courtesy of the American Heart Association. Earlier this year, the American Heart Association (AHA) issued a policy statement aimed at ...

The American Heart Association issued a policy statement aimed at reducing nontraumatic leg amputations by 20 percent over the next ...

Surgeons at The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, New Jersey, have successfully used a new drug-coated balloon to treat peripheral artery disease (PAD) ...