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Ilegx The ilegx initiative aims to reduce significantly the number of leg amputations! What is ilegx? The rise is due to increase in atherosclerosis and diabetes.

Ilegx is a collaboration of like minded health professionals, patients and care workers who share the view that too many legs are amputated and many of these are completely unnecessary. Mission:

Ilegx mission is to attract attention and draw awareness to the need for an improvement in health care in order to lower unnecessary major amputation of legs. History:

The initiative was first convened b

y Professor Roger Greenhalgh in London in 2008 and was launched at the Imperial College, London, UK, with an inaugural meeting in October 2008. The first collaborators were Professors Michael Edmonds, diabetologist of King's College Hospital, London; Dieter Mayer, surgeon wound specialist, Zurich, Switzerland; Gunnar Tepe, interventional radiologist, Rosenheim, Germany; and later, Giacomo Clerici diabetologist and foot care expert, Milano, Italy. Background information:

The number of lower leg amputation is still increasing, despite the fact that the last twenty years have seen major innovations in healing of foot/leg tissue loss. This holds true for both the developed as well as the developing world. In the UK, for example, 100 legs a week are lost among diabetic patients. The majority of these amputations are preceded by leg tissue loss. Leg/foot tissue loss is a growing challenge due to demographic changes and increased risks of concurrent illnesses like diabetes. Increasing number of the elderly in the population will lead to a corresponding increase in numbers of patients with leg/foot tissue loss. Studies from the UK suggest a prevalence of diagnosed diabetes of about 7% in men and 5% in adult women in 2010. This would equate to approximately three million people with diagnosed diabetes. It is estimated that around 50.000 people with diabetes will have a foot ulcer at any one time and up to 15% of all foor ulcers will result in amputations. Both leg/foot tissue loss and amputations have an enormous impact on people's lives, often leading to reduced independence, social isolation and psychological stress. Leg/foot tissue loss is also a significant economic problem, particularly if amputation results in prolonged hospitalisation, rehabilitation and an increased need for more care and social services. However there are ways to significantly reduce amputation rates. The challenge is implementing a complex care strategy consistently across established care services embracing at risk patients. Take part to reduce significantly the number of leg amputations!

UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular Disease condemns new figures on regional variation in amputation rates http...
21/03/2014

UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Vascular Disease condemns new figures on regional variation in amputation rates http://bit.ly/1hN3Cwe

CX ilegx Collaboration Day embraces Electronic Endovascular Education http://bit.ly/16N4T1Q
10/04/2013

CX ilegx Collaboration Day embraces Electronic Endovascular Education http://bit.ly/16N4T1Q

This year, the ilegx multidisciplinary team, continuing in its aim to reduce the number of leg amputations, broadcast—for the first time—edited live below-the-knee endovascular procedures to the Far East, in association with Abbott Vascular.

08/04/2013
Physicians from the King's College Hospital Open Access System now presenting on their approach to save legs at
08/04/2013

Physicians from the King's College Hospital Open Access System now presenting on their approach to save legs at

Today is an exciting day for ilegx at , now presenting BTK live cases from Leipzig!
08/04/2013

Today is an exciting day for ilegx at , now presenting BTK live cases from Leipzig!

Boston Scientific launches Rubicon Support Catheter in 0.035" and 0.018" diameters intended to improve the treatment of ...
13/03/2013

Boston Scientific launches Rubicon Support Catheter in 0.035" and 0.018" diameters intended to improve the treatment of peripheral arterial disease http://bit.ly/X7fQFp

25/02/2013

The full ilegx collaboration programme at is online now! http://bit.ly/W6kHvA

We are pleased to announce a full programme for the CX ilegx Collaboration Day on Monday, 8 April. ilegx stands for ‘interdisciplinary leg management’ and this programme brings to light the fact that too many legs are being amputated, with a rise in type 2 diabetic amputees.

There is still hope to prevent amputation in critical limb ischaemia patients with bypass graft surgery, Roberto Sacilot...
05/12/2012

There is still hope to prevent amputation in critical limb ischaemia patients with bypass graft surgery, Roberto Sacilotto wrote in Vascular News.

Roberto Sacilotto says that, despite technical improvements in endovascular therapy, bypass graft surgery still plays a role in the treatment of critical limb ischaemia and should continue to be taught in vascular training programmes. He describes how his group performs distal bypasses in TASC D les...

George Andros to be awarded with the 2013 MedStar Georgetown Distinguished Achievement Award in Diabetic : http://bit...
05/12/2012

George Andros to be awarded with the 2013 MedStar Georgetown Distinguished Achievement Award in Diabetic : http://bit.ly/UnRWom

George Andros is recognised for his work on diabetic limb salvage and lower extremity revascularisation. He will be awarded at the 7th annual Diabetic Limb Salvage Conference (October 10–12 2013, Washington, USA).

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