A Manitoba woman had her right leg amputated after complications following a knee replacement surgery two months earlier.

This paper seeks to systematically review the evidence for the use of both one-stage and two-stage revision for infected knee replacement.

He said the surgeon who removed dead tissue from his wife's knee shouldn't have ... amputation after a post-operative infection was left to fester and the wound wasn't stitched up.

Mr Lau also learnt that he had Type 2 diabetes, which affects wound healing. Consequently, he faced the possibility of having his entire right leg below his knee removed. “I couldn’t accept ...