New surgical method to save gangrenous limbs developed

  • 07/12/1997

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

A new surgical technique to save gangrenous limbs has been developed by the Jalandhar based Tagore Heart Care and Research Centre. Surgeons in the department of cardiac surgery had used the technique to bypass a blocked artery in the patient's right leg, with radical artery from her left arm, and have claimed this to be a first in medical science.