The ability to offer this treatment to our patients at DHMC gives tremendous potential to preserve and even improve their quality of life.
乔斯林米. 海滩,医学博士11月是 美国糖尿病月, a time to raise awareness and promote research related to diabetes. One of the more devastating impacts of the disease many diabetics face is chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), often requiring amputation of the foot. A state-of-the-art procedure now available through the 心 & 血管中心 at 十大博彩推荐排名卫生’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) offers the chance of limb preservation for many patients who otherwise might be destined for amputation.
LimFlow is a minimally invasive technology designed to divert blood around diseased arteries in the leg and into the tibial veins that feed the foot, bringing blood and oxygen to starved tissues in the foot. The procedure works by implanting a stent in the patient’s leg that permanently bypasses arteries that are blocked and cannot be reconstructed. An abundance of oxygen in the tissue can immediately relieve pain and promote healing of chronic wounds for many patients, 提高他们的生活质量. DHMC is the only hospital in northern New England (New Hampshire, 佛蒙特州和缅因州)提供LimFlow, and only one of two in all New England and just 25 nationally.
DHMC患者罗伯特·麦克布莱德, 72, 风箱瀑布, VT, has lived with type 1 diabetes for 58 years and grew concerned when a small wound on his left big toe was failing to heal. When hyperbaric treatment was ineffective, McBride’s vascular surgeon, 乔斯林米. 海滩,医学博士, recommended he have the LimFlow procedure.
“The wound was just getting worse to the point that it almost hit bone in my toe,麦克布莱德说. “虽然博士. 比奇不得不把我的脚趾截肢, 如果我没有LimFlow程序, I probably would have lost my entire left foot eventually.”
除了救他的脚, McBride said LimFlow caused his oxygen levels to improve dramatically, 从30出头到50出头.
“I want everyone who might be in danger of losing their foot, 像我一样, 调查LimFlow, especially folks like me in rural New England who might think they’d have to travel far to Boston or New York for a surgery like this,麦克布莱德说. “I received truly outstanding care and attention to my issue from the team at DHMC, and this procedure really changed my life.”
“截肢是一种极端的措施, 但是在LimFlow这样的程序之前, it was often the only option for patients like Mr. McBride,” said Beach, who serves as principal investigator of a clinical trial of LimFlow at DHMC. “The ability to offer this treatment to our patients at DHMC gives tremendous potential to preserve and even improve their quality of life.”
For more information on LimFlow at DHMC, visit http://bit.ly/3QoYFDc.
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