New method to help diabetics avoid getting limb!

People with diabetes are often cut off by necrosis if they encounter a small scratch. Now, there are new treatments to avoid them this tragedy: Pumping blood with high pressure into the injured limb.

Pumping blood with high pressure into the limb damaged by peripheral vascular disease is a new method of Australian experts to increase blood flow to the limbs, stimulate new blood vessels to develop, avoid necrosis leading to must be cut off.

New treatments can help hundreds of thousands of diabetics avoid the risk of limb surgery.(Photo: Patient.co.uk)

The new medical technologist is Dr. Rodney Lane, vascular surgeon at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. This new technique, officially announced on August 8, 2007, helped a first patient avoid the removal of a leg. These are Mr. Malcolm Brown, 52 years old, in Newcastle, Australia.

According to Dr. Lane, the clinical trial was successfully performed at Mr. Brown's feet a year ago. Earlier, Mr. Brown was informed by three doctors that he needed surgery to remove a necrotic leg.

The man with these two children had peripheral vascular disease, resulting in the formation of a blood clot (clot) in the artery near the knee, seriously obstructing the blood supply to the leg from the knee down. Dr. Lane said: 'At that time, Brown's foot had lost its sensation and became cold and white because of anemia. Necrotic ulcers have formed on the feet and fingers'.

With the hope of not being cut off, Mr. Brown agreed to participate in a new technical experiment.

Doctors have implanted the artery in the patient's thigh, a small device with a ballpoint pen, called Peripheral Access Device (PAD), which means ' peripheral access device '. This device is connected to a blood pump located outside the body. Then, the patient's own blood is pumped through the legs at high pressure, which helps the blood to the feet increase 2.5 times the amount of blood pumped from the heart, thereby stimulating new blood vessels to develop.

In a report, Dr. Lane said: 'After 50 hours of blood pumping done in 5 days, the patient's legs became warm and rosy again. The feeling of leg also recovered significantly and the sores on the feet and fingers started to heal quickly. '

He said: 'The patient's leg has been saved by the development of the patient's own blood vessels, thereby restoring the supply of blood to the legs. A year later, Mr. Brown's leg was still intact and he could walk. '

Currently, Brown is encouraging at-risk patients to participate in trials that are still ongoing at Royal North Shore Hospital.

Diabetes and smoking are two common causes of peripheral vascular disease - the disease that leads to about 340,000 cases of limbs in Western countries each year.(Photo: img.timeinc.net)

Dr. Lane said: 'This success opens up a great hope for about 340,000 patients who undergo yearly surgery for Western countries due to peripheral vascular disease'.

According to medical experts, diabetes and smoking are two common causes of peripheral vascular disease - the disease that leads to about 340,000 cases of limbs in Western countries each year.

Speaking to AFP news agency, Greg Roger, associate professor of biological engineering at the University of Sydney, general director of the PAD equipment manufacturing company, said he hopes to have more clinical trials from now on. By the end of the year, so that this method can be officially applied to patients at risk of limb.

Quang Thinh