Our report on diabetes-related amputation in Barbados (1), together with data from Morbach et al. (2), offers tentative evidence of a different hierarchy of mortality following lower-extremity amputation in people with diabetes in the developing world, with more deaths caused by overwhelming infection. In a recent Caribbean publication, septicemia was again the most common cause of postoperative mortality (3), contributing …
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