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- Relationship to Diabetes
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Diabetes often causes complications that lead to nearly 5,000 amputations every year in Kazakhstan, Tengrinews reports citing Zhanai Akanov, Head of the Center for Diabetes at Almaty-based Kazakh National Medical University named after Sanzhar Asfendiyarov, as saying. According to the doctor the only choice that patients with advanced diabetilies often have is between amputation and death.
"Patients with very high blood sugar level get infected wounds after leg injuries, which subsequently causes gangrene (life-threatening condition that arises when a considerable mass of body tissue dies (necrosis)). If the gangrene grows, unfortunately, the only solution in our country is amputation. In all other countries, operations are conducted to save the limbs. They try to make angioplasty, to save the leg, to excise the necrotic tissue a little," the doctor said. A center, where such surgeries can be made, is expected to open in Kazakhstan only this year.
http://en.tengrinews.kz/health/Diabetes-leads-to-5000-amputations-annually-in-Kazakhstan-258200/
"advanced diabetilies"
"Patients with very high blood sugar level get infected wounds after leg injuries, which subsequently causes gangrene (life-threatening condition that arises when a considerable mass of body tissue dies (necrosis)). If the gangrene grows, unfortunately, the only solution in our country is amputation. In all other countries, operations are conducted to save the limbs. They try to make angioplasty, to save the leg, to excise the necrotic tissue a little," the doctor said. A center, where such surgeries can be made, is expected to open in Kazakhstan only this year.
http://en.tengrinews.kz/health/Diabetes-leads-to-5000-amputations-annually-in-Kazakhstan-258200/
"advanced diabetilies"