ArticleWorld journal of surgery2025
Diabetes-Associated Major Limb Amputation in Solomon Islands: A National, 5-Year Retrospective Study.
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- Exported students, imported surgeons: a narrative review of transnational surgical training and its impact on the surgical workforce of Solomon Islands.BMC surgery · 2025Review
- Diabetes-Associated Major Limb Amputation in Solomon Islands: A National, 5-Year Retrospective Study.World journal of surgery · 2025Article
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backgroundSolomon Islands is a Western Pacific nation with one of the highest diabetes prevalences in the world. The delivery of surgical care is challenging given the country's complex geography and limited healthcare resources. This retrospective study aims to quantify diabetes-associated major limb amputation and to describe the characteristics of patients undergoing this procedure.
methodsDemographic, clinical, and surgical data were abstracted for patients who underwent major limb amputation secondary to diabetic infection. Summary statistics were gathered from this dataset. Additionally, patients' village names were abstracted, located from publicly available data, and mapped using ArcPro software. The geodesic distance between villages and the surgical centers performing amputation was calculated. Univariate and multivariate modeling was employed to assess the relationship between an a priori set of variables and several outcomes.
resultsOver a 5-year period (2018-2023), 401 amputations were performed on 356 patients with diabetic limb infections. Three hundred and five patients had medical records available for abstraction. The median age was 55 (range: 22-84 years), and 160 were male (52.5%). Trauma was the most common cause of ulceration (N = 135, 44.3%). Delayed presentation was common with 100 patients (32.8%) presenting more than 30 days after symptom onset. The mean Wagner score on presentation was 3.6 (STD: 0.8, range: 2-5). Most patients (N = 293, 96%) experienced surgical delays. Among all patients who underwent major limb amputation, 38 (10.7%) died prior to discharge. The mean linear distance between patient villages and surgical centers was 53.6 km. Greater distance was associated with more delayed presentation (Correlation Coeff: 0.14, p = 0.03) and higher Wagner scores (Kruskal-Wallis statistic: 10.7, p = 0.01). Multivariable logistic regression indicated that males were more likely to undergo above-knee amputation as compared to females (OR: 2.13, p = 0.009). Further multivariable modeling demonstrated that male sex was correlated with higher wait times from presentation to amputation (p = 0.035).
conclusionMajor limb amputation is a costly and radical procedure which contributes to severe disability in the local context. Upstream interventions to manage diabetes and facilitate access to surgical care are likely to prevent limb loss.
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