Slideshow: Stem-Cell Fix for Diabetic Ulcer?

Vascular surgeon S.R. Subrammaniyan tried an experimental treatment using the patient’s bone marrow stem cells. The leg soon began to heal. An indian woman’s leg infected by a diabetic ulcer at a Chennai hospital. Most doctors said her only option was amputation. Seventy days after the stem cell treatment, the patient’s diabetic ulcer is dramatically […]

Vascular surgeon S.R. Subrammaniyan tried an experimental treatment using the patient’s bone marrow stem cells. The leg soon began to heal.

An indian woman’s leg infected by a diabetic ulcer at a Chennai hospital. Most doctors said her only option was amputation.

Seventy days after the stem cell treatment, the patient’s diabetic ulcer is dramatically improved. She was saved from amputation and is walking again.