Cultura

Intersecting ‘Border’ Narratives of Resistance: Codex Espangliensis

VOLUME 22, 2025

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Dr. P. Kumar Mangalam, Dr. Mithilesh Kumar Tiwari, Dr. Supriya Pathak

Abstract

Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol (2000) enacts a particular aesthetic of contestation. This aesthetic is performed through a calling together of references potentially damaging to dominant schemes from both the sides of the USA-Mexico border, material and discursive homeland, as it were, of the text. This calling together extends and is addressed well beyond the border to the geo-historic terrain of what is known as Latin America or even the Americas. Far from being accidental or merely meant to add some retro or ethnic style this symbolic extension corresponds to some underlying realities of this terrain. “Border thinking” as envisioned and proposed by Walter D. Mignolo, discussed in detail in chapter one, then becomes a whole alternative perspective to appreciate the multi-referential and territory-crossing play of this contestory aesthetic (Mignolo 2005 10).

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Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty