This story has leg.
Posted on 02/08/2011 6:17:10 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A hospital in China has sewn the left foot of a patient on to his right leg in a bid to save both the foot itself and his left limb.
The patient, named as Mr Ma, had the surgery in Zhengzhou, in central China, following a work accident two weeks ago which badly damaged his left leg.
It appears that doctors felt that the infected wound in the leg would have ultimately led to amputating the foot and leaving the limb 7in shorter - so decided to make their radical decision.
They decided to attach the left foot to the right leg and use that limb's arteries and veins to keep the foot healthy thereby leaving the patient, for the moment, with two right feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Not really uncommon. They do this to save severed appendages, as well.
That's cool but it's gonna suck buying shoes.....Maybe he can find a buddy with two left feet.
Does this mean he will walk in circles?
I don’t understand. What are they doing to his stump in the meantime?
This story has leg.
That is one lucky foot.
Until they did this surgery, he was a foot shorter.
They’re going to save the stump (the article doesn’t go into detail on just how), and then they’ll transfer the left foot back to that leg.
That’s quite a feet.
Said Mr. Ma, “I KNOW MY RIGHTS!”
why do they have to cut the foot off to save the stump? This sounds like they are doing experiments on people to me.
“Confucius say: All I want for New Year is own two right feet.”
If the article went into detail about the man’s injury, we could probably figure that one out.
As far as “experiments” go, I’m sure the first artificial heart installation was thought of as an experiment by some. All drug trials, including those involving humans, are basically experiments as well.
Once that's taken care of and the leg is shorter, they can plug the foot back in ~ probably by putting in a steel prosthetic device giving him his previous leg length and pulling sinews, muscles and blood vessels down to meet the foot.
It sounds remarkably like that technique the Russians worked out to STRETCH LEGS for very short people.
The solution is to open the eye up, zap the outer margins of the retina on the inside toward the macula ALL the way around.
You end up losing about half your retinal tissue, but you save the macula (the central vision part).
Before that, you of course place a scaleric band around the eye to compress it a bit causing a ring of tissue to pop up all around the inside, and the retina will reattach to that ring.
A little loss here and there up against the benefit of retaining eyesight ~ that's the game there. This man's surgeons are playing the same one. He may end up with two good legs, or one.
This is a blessing not available in ancient times.
My daughter had that procedure to stretch her smaller leg at the Shriners hospital when she was 9. It is called the Illizerov method named for the Russian doctor who developed it. She would have had one leg 4 inches shorter than the other as an adult. They broke the lower leg stabilized it and we screwed it apart a very small amount every day. The bone filled in and now her leg is the same size as the other. She was on painkillers but we got her off afterwards. Then they put blocks in the growth plates of her other leg during her growth spurt a few years later to make up the rest of the difference.
We are forever grateful to the Shriners.
Sounds like you know what you are talking about!
Yup. With biological systems you must be prepared to give something to get something ~
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