Every 30 seconds, a diabetic finger or the whole limb is
amputated across the world. A majority of such cases can be prevented
with early diagnosis and good management including diet control and
monitored exercise.
That was the startling welcome
from Dr. G.N. Sastry, Director of the Hyderabad facility of Dr.
Mohan’s
Diabetes Speciality Centre at the inaugural of Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Foot
Symposium here on Sunday. Dr. Martin Yorath, a podiatric physician and
surgeon from the U.S., spoke on ‘Advances in management of Charcot Foot’
quoted WHO statistics that put the number of diabetics globally at 382
million.
India now has about 50 million diabetics, he said, focussing on ‘Charcot Foot’ a diabetes of the ankle and foot.
Dr.
Pinjala Ramakrishna of the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Science here
spoke on ‘Dysvascular Foot’ and explained how low blood supply to the
lower limbs if neglected, led to amputation and how the condition could
be rectified by balloon angioplasty to dilate narrow blood vessels.
Endocrinologist
R.P. Mathur pointed out that 70 per cent of lower limb amputations were
because of diabetes and that it could be prevented with a bit of
management.
Orthopaedician Dr. K.V. Prasad, recalled
that osteoporosis and diabetes were two words that struck terror in any
orthopaedic surgeon.
This was because of the degree
of difficulty that brittle and weak bones due to osteoporosis came with
during surgery and the way diabetics were prone to infection.
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