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Doctors in Taiwan have developed a drug therapy that can save certain diabetes patients from having lower limb amputations. 
 
Often in diabetes, blood supply to the feet is disrupted. The combination of two drugs that suppress blood platelets, Pletaal and Plavix, helps restore some blood flow and prevents gangrene from setting in. 
 
The therapy is still experimental and is to be used together with existing measures. 
 

Gangrene treatment developed for diabetes patients

Taipei Times - 7/4/2006 11:48 PM

Patients suffering from peripheral gangrene caused by diabetes may be relieved of the worry of having to have a limb amputated, thanks to a new treatment invented by a local hospital.
 
The Taipei Veterans General Hospital Department of Cardiac Surgery announced at a press conference yesterday a new remedy for peripheral necrosis commonly seen on the feet of diabetes patients
 
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