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With techniques used to save the heart, surgeons are rescuing limbs from the ravages of diabetes

Good medical care, including surgery, can help diabetics with serious vascular problems keep their feet and legs.

Eric Choi, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and director of the Temple Limb Salvage Center, talks to Carmen Suero minutes before he would attempt to open a blocked blood vessel in her leg at Temple University Hospital. She was at risk of an amputation.
Eric Choi, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and director of the Temple Limb Salvage Center, talks to Carmen Suero minutes before he would attempt to open a blocked blood vessel in her leg at Temple University Hospital. She was at risk of an amputation.Read moreJOSE F. MORENO / Staff Photographer