Common late complications of longitudinal forefoot amputations in neuropathic foot treatment

• DOI: 10.12968/jowc.2021.30.6.498
• Publication Date: 2021-06-13T10:25:25Z
• Authors: Rodrigo Sousa Macedo; Lucas Sousa Macedo; Marcos Hideyo Sakaki; Rafael Barban Spo...; Rafael Trevisan O...; Marcos de Andrade...; Alexandre Leme Go...; Túlio Diniz Ferna...
• Keywords: Foot (prosody)

To describe and quantify the complications arising in consecutive neuropathic patients undergoing partial longitudinal amputations of foot.A retrospective study was conducted with data collected from medical records monitored at Insensitive Foot Clinic Ankle Group our institution who underwent amputation foot rays 2000 to 2016.A total 28 met inclusion criteria, a 31 amputated/partially amputated feet. Of these, 18 (58.1%) feet were due diabetes, seven (22.6%) leprosy, two (6.5%) alcoholic neuropathy, secondary traumatic peripheral nerve injury, other causes. Fifth ray most frequent type (n=12). The cause presence an infected ulcer 93.6% samples. At mean follow-up time 60 months, 13 (41.9%) required new amputations-five (38.5%) transtibial, five transmetatarsal, (15.4%) toes, one (7.7%) Chopart's joint. Patients diabetes had 50.0% reamputation rate. initially fifth 58.3% rate.Partial exhibited high reoperation rate, especially or initial rays. Declaration interest: authors have no conflicts interest.