Friday, December 25, 2009

Stem cell transplantation to deal with diabetic foot

Diabetic foot is a common complication of diabetes, was seriously ill and even those who face the risk of amputation. Recently, Zhejiang Province, the first

Chinese medicine hospital in the province to adopt a stem cell transplant technology, so that patients with diabetic foot saw the hope of treatment.

71-year-old Town of Xiaoshan Puyan Kong Dabo suffering from diabetic foot, a manicure last year, when he accidentally torn right toes, ulcerated wounds

unhealed, after a week went so far as rotten to the bone, the entire right foot cold and black, allowing uncle suffered enough. Provincial Hospital of

Chinese experts in the diagnosis, which is typical of diabetic lower limb vascular disease caused by bad foot. In order to enable patients to relieve the

pain of amputation, diabetes experts, NI Hai-xiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese physicians using stem cell transplantation bold new technology.

This called "autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation," the new technology is to human bone marrow hematopoietic stem cell mobilization into the

peripheral blood, and then separating out the useful hematopoietic stem cells, and then re-enter into the affected area, stem cells in the "new posts" on the

be effective, the gradual formation of new blood vessels to replace the original lesion of the blood vessels, improving and restoring lower limb blood flow,

and then by 3 to 6 months of recovery, the new blood vessels can grow into, so let the diabetic foot, "old tree grows new branches "avoid the risk of

amputation.

At present, the original Kong Dabo sick have recovered the body temperature and blood, skin from black to red, the condition improved markedly. It is the

province the first use of autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation technology used successfully in the treatment of diabetic foot.