Suffering from critical limb ischemia, a diabetic faced the loss of a lower limb. But a private hospital in Chennai saved the patient by using bone marrow stem cell treatment.

“The 68-year-old woman, hailing from Andhra Pradesh and suffering from critical ischemia, with a very large ulcer at the left calf and foot and advised amputation of the left lower limb, successfully underwent autologous (one’s own) bone marrow stem cell treatment at the vascular department of Chennai’s Vijaya Hospital,” the hospital’s chief vascular surgeon, Dr. Subrammaniyan, said recently.

New blood vessel formation improved circulation to the affected leg and the women