Power, Politics, and ‘Vietnamese Brides’
VOLUME 21, 2024
The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review
VOLUME 6, 2023
Ying Xue
Schohool of English Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, China
Schohool of English Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, China
Cao Liang
School of School of humanity and education, Guangxi Polytechnic of Construction , Nanning 530000, Guangxi, China
School of School of humanity and education, Guangxi Polytechnic of Construction , Nanning 530000, Guangxi, China
Abstract
Mass media has recently attracted public attention to ‘Vietnamese brides,’ a large group of female immigrants in China whose situation is both unique and clearly gendered. Still, that media attention has not been accompanied either by a clear definition or by clear understandings of why bridal immigration exists between Vietnam and China and is unidirectional. The inherited wisdom is that the immigration of Vietnamese brides to China is related to the Chinese economic boom and the widening development gap between China and Vietnam, but this article argues that these inherited accounts are incomplete without paying attention to the various power relations involved in Vietnamese ‘bridal’ immigration to China from interstate power between China and Vietnam to power politics within marriages.
Keywords :
‘Vietnamese Brides’, Power, Immigration, Gender, Feminism, Patriarchy.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
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