New hope for PAD sufferers
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
Research by vascular surgeons may offer new hope to sufferers of peripheral artery disease, the cause of nearly 60,000 lower-limb amputations annually, through the use of a patient's own stem cells.
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