{"id":14341,"date":"2014-09-28T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=14341"},"modified":"2014-09-28T18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T15:36:59","slug":"syrian-doctor-saves-patients-foot-from-amputation-using-special-surgical-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=14341","title":{"rendered":"Syrian doctor saves patient&#8217;s foot from amputation using special surgical procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hama, SANA \u2013 Dr. Abdelrazzaq al-Yousef managed to save a young man&#8217;s foot from amputation by carrying out a special reconstructive surgical procedure at Hama National Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to SANA&#8217;s correspondent, al-Yousef said that he used tissue from the 22 year-old patient&#8217;s soleus ligament to repair damage to the exposed ankle, with skin grafts to be used later to finish the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the plantal artery which was completely severed, but the tibial artery is providing blood to the foot, asserting that if this procedure hadn&#8217;t been carried out, it would have necessary to amputate the foot.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor noted that the odds of this procedure&#8217;s success are around 30%, but the alternative was microsurgery to implant ligaments which can only be done in a center specializing microvascular surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hama, SANA \u2013 Dr. Abdelrazzaq al-Yousef managed to save a young man&#8217;s foot from amputation by carrying out a special reconstructive surgical procedure at Hama National Hospital. In a statement to SANA&#8217;s correspondent, al-Yousef said that he used tissue from the 22 year-old patient&#8217;s soleus ligament to repair damage to the exposed ankle, with skin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,487,12,178],"tags":[2637],"class_list":["post-14341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newscasts","category-health","category-health-environment","category-news-reports-health-environment","tag-surgical-procedure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}