Rambam prevents ‘diabetic foot’ amputations

12.11.2012                      27.Cheschwan. 5773

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Rambam prevents ‘diabetic foot’ amputations

New leg catheterization surgery has improved the lives of hundreds suffering from diabetes.

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa said on Sunday that in the last two years, it has saved the limbs of 521 such patients by performing “leg catheterizations” that supply blood to the limb and keep it alive….