Are you a candidate for amputation?
Candidates for amputation surgery include those with symptoms of atherosclerosis, claudication, and gangrene in the leg from diabetes.
Amputation Surgery
Facts about amputation, and NYU surgeons’ success with saving limbs of patients scheduled for amputation at other hospitals.
Amputation Surgeons at NYU
List of NYU vascular surgeons who perform amputation surgery.
Are you a candidate for amputation?
You may be a candidate for amputation, or limb removal, if you:
- have symptoms of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), including claudication (pain when walking)
- due to a lack of blood flow to the legs
- have developed gangrene (tissue death) in your leg from diabetes or atherosclerosis
- are experiencing mesenteric ischemia (severe abdominal pain from decreased blood flow to the intestines)
Amputation Surgery
Amputation surgery involves the removal of a limb (arm, leg, foot, or toe), usually due to arterial insufficiency (decreased blood flow), incurable infection, gangrene and necrosis (tissue death). Amputation surgery is considered only as a last resort.
Why choose NYU?
If you have been told that amputation is your only option, NYU may be able to help. Our vascular surgeons have achieved a 70–80% success rate of limb salvage in patients who were scheduled for amputation at other hospitals.
With decades of experience treating thousands of patients with life-and limb-threatening issues of peripheral artery disease and claudication, gangrene in the leg from diabetes, and limb-threatening ischemia (poor circulation), NYU surgeons are experts in performing bypass surgery
Through these procedures, followed by world-class rehabilitation therapy at NYU’s Rusk Institute, our surgeons have preserved function of arms and legs for patients who have been told by other doctors that they would require amputation. More information about amputation is available on the Society for Vascular Surgery website.
