Many lower limb amputees are older people who've had really bad problems with diabetes and poor circulation. The diabetes often causes other life-threatening problems, such as kidney disease, high blood pressure, heart disease among others. So when you consider that a typical lower limb amputee may be a 75 year old man with heart and kidney problems amongst other health problems, it's becomes easier to see that he may not last until 80.
Nearly half of the individuals who have an amputation due to vascular disease will die within 5 years, usually secondary to the extensive co-morbidities rather than due to direct consequences of amputation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation#:~:text=Nearly%20half%20of%20the%20individuals,colon%20cancer%2C%20and%20prostate%20cancer. I know im 12 years late but, its not the amputation that kills them, its everything else
Many lower limb amputees are older people who've had really bad problems with diabetes and poor circulation. The diabetes often causes other life-threatening problems, such as kidney disease, high blood pressure, heart disease among others. So when you consider that a typical lower limb amputee may be a 75 year old man with heart and kidney problems amongst other health problems, it's becomes easier to see that he may not last until 80.
I read on Wikipedia that many lower limb amputees die within 5 years of the amputation. Is that true and if it is true why?
Nearly half of the individuals who have an amputation due to vascular disease will die within 5 years, usually secondary to the extensive co-morbidities rather than due to direct consequences of amputation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation#:~:text=Nearly%20half%20of%20the%20individuals,colon%20cancer%2C%20and%20prostate%20cancer.
I know im 12 years late but, its not the amputation that kills them, its everything else