- Filiberto Arellano Ortiz, a plastic surgeon at the regional hospital in Cuernavaca, Mexico, has developed a method of alleviating the need for leg amputation in severe diabetes. Dr Ortiz said that plaster patches of nitroglycerin on affected parts of the limbs dilated the vessels in the leg and improved blood flow to the extremities, reducing the resulting number of leg ulcers and accompanying infections.
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