The Lakeland Vascular Institute (LVI) is a very important  community resource for our patients with lower extremity circulation disorders and disease.  Dr. Karr was the first physician in Polk county to refer to LVI and has co-managed hundreds of patients with lower extremity vascular disease with LVI to improve patients quality of life and prevent amputation. 

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PREVENTING AMPUTATION

This patient started w/ single vessel runoff (above left) and now has 3 vessel runoff all the way to the foot (above right).  Initially this patient was probably to have a below amputation from a painful foot wound and poor leg circulation.  With the intervention by LVI, the wound healed, the patients pain subsided, and the amputation was prevented.