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Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río
On-line version ISSN 1561-3194
Abstract
HERNANDEZ DIAZ, Aida Rosa et al. Behavior of non-traumatic lower limb amputations during 2019-2020. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.3 Epub May 01, 2021. ISSN 1561-3194.
Introduction:
amputation may be the oldest surgical procedures.
Objective:
to assess the behavior of non-traumatic lower limb amputations in Pinar del Rio province during the years 2019-2020.
Methods:
a descriptive, longitudinal and cross-sectional study of non-traumatic lower limb amputations was conducted at Abel Santamaria Cuadrado General Teaching Hospital during the years 2019-2020. The target group comprised 488 patients, all of them were studied. Descriptive statistics was applied by means of absolute and relative percentages.
Results:
amputations increased discreetly in 2020 (5 %) due to peripheral vascular disease, along with diabetes mellitus being the first cause (60 %), followed by obliterating atherosclerosis with major amputations as the most frequent (82 %), and of them supracondylar amputations (69 %).
Conclusions:
peripheral vascular disease constitutes a high risk of lower limb amputations in patients without possibilities of revascularization in correspondence with the major supracondylar ones, and diabetes mellitus as the first cause for non-traumatic amputations.
Keywords : AMPUTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS.