Gangrene is a type of tissue death which occurs due to loss of blood supply. This may affect any part of the body but usually affects the peripheral extremities like feet, toes, fingers, hands, penis ...

Type 2 diabetes is a condition whereby the sufferer experiences dangerous levels of high blood sugar and this can also affect their blood vessels and limit the blood flow to the feet. This causes a ...

It is the dying or dead body tissue that occurs as a result of a bacterial infection or inadequate blood flow. It tends to affect the extremities the fingers, toes and limbs. My maternal grandmother's ...

(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) has received a patent for a 'Therapeutic composition for treating gangrene'. Dr Sidgi Syed Anwar Abdo Hasson and Prof Ali Abdullah Hassan ...

Diabetic gangrene is characterized by obstructed supply of blood due to tissue damage or death of the body tissues. It is caused due to an underlying injury, infection or illness resulted from poor ...

Patients rest in a courtyard in the General Hospital downtown of Port-au-Prince. ((United Nations photo)) In most of the world, if you're seriously injured in an accident, you will probably get enough ...

Susan Kwamboka, 36, knows only too well the pain of losing a mother to gangrene, a condition that consumed her alive, causing some of her toes to fall off. Gangrene occurs when body tissues dies due ...

The most pressing issues in this patient are the treatment of progressive gangrene in affected digits and the prevention of future digital gangrene. The specific therapies that have been used for the ...