Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research for Chronic Wounds.
Abstract: Radiation wounds represent some of the most difficult wounds to treat. Historically, there have been few nonsurgical options. Recent research suggests future potential of a therapeutic role for growth factors. Hyperbaric oxygen is currently widely used, but...
Abstract: The practice of scuba diving is associated with two specific medical problems: barotrauma directly related to changes in ambient pressure, and decompression sickness related to the uptake and the release of inert gases by the body. Neurological symptoms are...
Abstract: Moulin, Li, Loizzo, Faudemay, Hostein, , , , (1993). [Value of hyperbaric oxygen in the hemostatic treatment of chronic radiation-induced recto-sigmoiditis]. Gastroenterologie clinique et biologique, 1993...
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen can produce a variety of effects in addition to reducing air and gas embolism. It increases the killing ability of leukocytes and is lethal to certain anaerobic bacteria. It inhibits toxin formation by certain anaerobes, increases the...
Abstract: Therapeutic effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) in 50 patients with chronic occlusive arterial diseases were studied with determination of the transcutaneous oxygen pressure (TcPO2), plasma lipid peroxide level, and plasma superoxide dismutase (SOD)...
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen has been established as an acceptable treatment for the chronic healing wound. Nicotinamide has been shown to be angiogenic and accelerate the physiologic process following wounding. Therefore both nicotinamide and hyperbaric oxygen were...
Abstract: A 69-year-old woman underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy because of a nonhealing ulcer of her foot. During decompression, she developed a left-sided hemiplegia and confusion. Recompression resulted in transient neurologic improvement, but she eventually...
Abstract: Compartment syndrome represents the most serious complication in the treatment of the fractures of the shin. In the period 1979-1987 17 patients with variously developed form of the compartment syndrome were treated at the Orthopaedic clinic of the Institute...
Abstract: HOT is a very useful therapeutic addition in chronic wounds presenting a healing problem and for which usual treatment were unsuccessful. In order to be fully effective, HOT must be included in a strategy of care, taking into account, not only the wound...