Abstract: Calcific uraemic arteriolopathy (CUA) or calciphylaxis is a rare but important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease. The prevalence of CUA is increasing in patients with renal failure, and the condition is also being...
Chronic Wounds
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research for Chronic Wounds.
How to make a hospital-based wound center financially viable: the Georgetown University Hospital model.
Abstract: As the medical need and expenditure for chronic wound care have increased markedly over the past decade, wound centers have grown exponentially throughout the country. They can be community-based or hospital-based, and in either case, can be run by the...
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of chronic refractory radiation proctitis: a randomized and controlled double-blind crossover trial with long-term follow-up: in regard to Clarke et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008 Mar 12).
Abstract: Hayne, Smith, , , , , , , (2008). Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of chronic refractory radiation proctitis: a randomized and controlled double-blind crossover trial with long-term follow-up: in regard to Clarke et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008 Mar...
Wound healing in radiated skin: pathophysiology and treatment options.
Abstract: Ulcers in radiated skin continue to be a challenge for health care practitioners. Healing impairment in the setting of radiation-damaged tissue will most of the time lead to chronic wounds that reduce the patient's quality of life. In this review, we present...
The use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat chronic wounds: A review.
Abstract: Chronic wounds, defined as those wounds which fail to proceed through an orderly process to produce anatomic and functional integrity, are a significant socioeconomic problem. A wound may fail to heal for a variety of reasons including the use of...
Topical oxygen therapy induces vascular endothelial growth factor expression and improves closure of clinically presented chronic wounds.
Abstract: 1. Chronic wounds, especially in diabetics, represent a serious threat to human health. 2. Correcting a compromised state of tissue oxygenation by the administration of supplemental O(2) is known to benefit wound healing. Beyond its role as a nutrient and...
Osteoradionecrosis of the jaws: current understanding of its pathophysiology and treatment.
Abstract: During the past 80 years a number of theories about the pathogenesis of osteoradionecrosis (ORN) have been proposed, with consequent implications for its treatment. Until recently tissue hypoxia and its consequences were accepted as the primary cause, and...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: types of injury and number of sessions–a review of 1506 cases.
Abstract: The aim of this work was to identify clinical data indicative of the number of hyperbaric oxygen therapy HBO2 sessions that should be prescribed for adjuvant treatment of tissue injuries of differing severity. A total of 1730 cases of patients treated with...
[The use of oxygen as drug and its relevance for wound healing].
Abstract: Plastic surgeons often have to deal with problematic wounds. In reconstructive surgery, as well as in chronic wounds, tissue oxygen supply is often critically low. Similarly in the treatment of severely burned patients, perfusion and oxygen supply to the...