Saving Limbs, Saving Lives: West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute Researcher Receives NIH Grant to Prevent Amputations in West Virginia
August 06, 2021
August 06, 2021
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, Aug. 6 (TNSGra) -- West Virginia University issued the following news:
One-fourth of all people who have a leg amputated below the knee will be dead within five years of the operation. If the amputation is above the knee, the mortality rate jumps to one-half.
With a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Samantha Minc, M.D., vascular surgeon and researcher at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute, is launching a pilot program to prevent . . .
One-fourth of all people who have a leg amputated below the knee will be dead within five years of the operation. If the amputation is above the knee, the mortality rate jumps to one-half.
With a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Samantha Minc, M.D., vascular surgeon and researcher at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute, is launching a pilot program to prevent . . .