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NEW DELHI: Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here is offering patients a new angioplasty procedure that differs from the usual angioplasty currently available to patients coming in with complications caused by diabetes. The procedure, performed on the wall of the artery, creates a new non-diseased channel, whereas the conventional method works on ballooning and opening the passage inside the clogged leg artery. The new angioplasty technique, according to physicians, also goes a long way in preventing amputation in patients with diabetic foot gangrene. Diabetic foot occurs due to a combination of infection, sensory nerve loss and lack of blood supply to the feet of patients with diabetes. "Of the total diabetic population, 30 per cent have peripheral arterial blockages and 15-20 per cent have foot problems. Easy as it sounds, this technique requires a surgical back-up in the event of failure of the technique and it is best carried out in a set-up with full open vascular surgical and endovascular backups,'' explains the Head of the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Rajiv Parikh. The hospital is offering the procedure at a cost of Rs. 40,000-45,000. It is said to have been carried out on 35 patients with as many as 25 reporting near total recovery. "The patients do need some management and control of diabetes. The new subintimal angioplasty technique can be attempted in most cases with encouraging results as the plaque burden is lateralised to reveal a new channel, which helps in wound healing by increasing blood supply,'' said Dr. Parikh.
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