Stem cell therapy used to save man’s leg

A fifty five-year-old diabetic man, was close to losing his leg due to gangrene. But a hospital on Delhi’s outskirts has used stem cell transplant to save his leg from being amputated.

The stem cells were generated from Dass’s own bone marrow, harvested from his hip bones.

Patients with critical blocks in leg vessels and impending gangrene of the leg cannot undergo bypass procedure or angioplasty as they have been through the procedure once. They have no option but to undergo a major amputation. However, stem cell therapy has upto 75 percent chances of making the condition better

The doctors say that the therapy’s success will be known only in six to eight weeks, however, the amputation will be significantly reduced.