Boiling Water Burn Endangers Diabetic's Leg, Saved at Ingrassia Hospital

A 54-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension and a previous coronary artery bypass graft was saved from amputation thanks to a timely intervention performed at the Ingrassia Hospital in Palermo. The patient, with severe peripheral arterial disease and claudication after walking a few meters, had presented himself at the emergency room of the Partinico Hospital for a sudden motor deficit in his right leg. In the previous days he had suffered a b…