St. Luke’s researches treatment

St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City continues to investigate a new treatment option for patients suffering from pain when walking, standing or resting due to lack of blood flow.

The condition, called Peripheral Arterial Disease, is also referred to as PAD or critical limb ischemia. PAD can result in foot sores, ulcers, gangrene and amputation.

Researchers from St. Luke’s are investigating a treatment that involves removing stem cells from the patient’s own bone marrow and injecting them into the leg. By doing this, researchers hope to trigger the creation of new blood vessels.

“For patients with no options and at high risk for amputation, this offers tremendous potential to save limbs, reduce pain and improve quality of life,” said vascular surgeon Keith Allen, MD, principal investigator for the research study and St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute.

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