,HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: , The patient is a 67-year-old African-American male, who was recently discharged from the hospital on July 21, 2008 after being admitted for altered mental status and before that after undergoing right above knee amputation for wet gangrene. 
,HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS : , The patient is a 67 - year - old African - American male , who was recently discharged from the hospital on July 21 , 2008 after being admitted for altered mental status and before that after undergoing right above knee amputation for wet gangrene .