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Predicting Amputation using Local Circulating Mononuclear Progenitor Cells in Angioplasty-treated Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia
Published on: September 22, 2020
Congenital limb deficiency requiring transfemoral amputation
Venus Vakhshori1, Ram K Alluri1, Rachel Y Goldstein2
1Orthopaedic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Abstract:
A healthy female infant was born from a twin pregnancy with an isolated congenital lower extremity malformation. Aside from prenatally diagnosed polyhydramnios, the infant had normal prenatal and postnatal diagnostic workup. She underwent transfemoral amputation and healed uneventfully. Congenital limb anomalies may be the result of an unidentified amniotic band, thromboembolic event or twin-twin transfusion syndrome, though in this case, prenatal screening did not indicate any evidence of a limb anomaly and postnatal workup was negative.
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