Eight-year-old Marynа Ponomariova from Kherson Oblast has become the first girl wearing an above-knee prosthesis to ski down a slope with a coach, setting a national record. Details: Marynа, who is ...

Background: The use of prosthetic grafts in the treatment of intermittent claudication is still a controversy. Prosthetic bypass for this usually benign condition may in some cases lead to a graft ...

FDA approved the first implant system for adults who have above-the-knee amputations and might not be able to use a conventional socket prosthetic device. The Osseoanchored Prostheses for the ...

A decade ago, Brazilian native André Barbieri suffered a snowboarding crash so violent that he broke his femur and ended up losing his left leg. But after a lengthy rehabilitation process, he learned ...

Three graft infections occurred after a lymphatic complication. The other 14 graft infections were probably due to contamination at the time of surgery or to delayed wound healing. Re-operative ...