These images illustrate efforts to save a limb from amputation, or, at least delay the event, when the limb is threatened by severe diabetic angiopathy and a non-healing ulcer.    Neuropathy and vasculopathy due to diabetes substantially contribute to limb loss all over the world, which in turn reduces an amputee’s longevity. Revascularization of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) or […]

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Smoking, dyslipidemias (disorders of lipids such as hypercholesterolemia), hypertension, and diabetes, individually and severally, may narrow or occlude arteries in all parts of the body. Amongst arteries that may suffer are the ones that carry blood from the abdominal aorta (the large artery that carries blood from the heart across the abdomen towards the lower […]

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The blue toe syndrome results when the arterial supply to a digit of the foot is acutely interrupted. Since digital arteries are end arteries and the interruption sudden, the affected toe quickly develops ischemia, which manifests as acute pain and discoloration. Often the obstructing agent is a fragment of clot dislodged off diseased segments of […]

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