Siriraj develops new surgical procedure for diabetes patients
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Siriraj Hospital's medical team has successfully created a new surgical method that might save many advanced diabetes patients from having to get their foot amputated.
“We have performed surgeries using this new procedure on 40 patients already,” Prof Dr Pramook Mutirangura said at a press conference Wednesday. “The success rate is very high.”
Dr Pramook heads the Vascular Surgery Division of the Mahidol University’s Faculty of Medicine at Siriraj Hospital and is part of the team that has developed this new surgical procedure.
Dubbed the pedal bypass with deep venous arterialisation, this surgical method provides blood supply to the ischemic foot through the venous system instead of the arterial system. This improved circulation then allows the foot to heal.
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