INDIA SURGEON RECONSTRUCTS ANKLE BONES
India has the dubious distinction of having more than 63 million people living with diabetes, according to Shobha Shukla, writing for Citizen News Service. India is second only to China in the number of people living with diabetes which, being a disease of the blood vessels, often results in destroyed hind foot bones.
While osteomyelitis in the diabetic foot can vary from 18% to 68%, the diabetic foot is also prone to Charcot’s osteoarthropathy—a severe complication of diabetes which leads to soft and brittle foot and ankle bones. Both of these conditions...
