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The efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy related to the clinical stage of osteoradionecrosis of the mandible.
Abstract: This study aimed to evaluate the success of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and surgery in the treatment of mandibular osteoradionecrosis (ORN) in relation to the extent of the ORN. Twenty-seven patients with ORN were identified from a...
Endoscopic and non-endoscopic approaches for the management of radiation-induced rectal bleeding.
Abstract: Pelvic radiation is a commonly utilized treatment for malignancy of the genitourinary and lower gastrointestinal tract. Radiation proctitis and the resultant clinical picture varies from asymptomatic to potentially life threatening....
Survival, Risk Factors, and Effect of Treatment in 101 Patients With Calciphylaxis.
Abstract: To report on the survival and the associations of treatments upon survival of patients with calciphylaxis seen at a single center. Using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision diagnosis code of 275.49 and the keyword...
Right cardiac intracavitary metastases from a primary intracranial myxofibrosarcoma.
Abstract: Primary intracranial myxofibrosarcoma is exceedingly rare, with less than 10 cases published. We present a case of a 23-year-old man with previous history of a primary low grade myxofibrosarcoma of the left parietal-occipital convexity...
Clinical Trial – Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Renal Regeneration in Diabetic Nephropathy
Diabetes kidney disease is a leading cause for end stage renal disease in the western world.
To date no treatment that can reverse renal damage exists.
Chronic hypoxia is one of the major key insults affecting the diabetic kidney, and many of
the new treatments under study focus on it’s consequences, but no treatment can improve the
hypoxia as both increased renal perfusion and decreased renal perfusion may be associated
with it’s worsening. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can improve renal hypoxia by increasing
partial pressure of dissolved (non-hemoglobin-bound) oxygen without affecting it’s demand.
HBOT also recruits tissue and peripheral progenitors and supplies the optimal environment
crucial for their proliferation and for tissue repair. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment was known
for years as an effective treatment for diabetic ulcers. Recent trials have shown great
impact on brain lesions (in diabetic and non-diabetic patients) it is now the time to
evaluate the effect of HBOT on the diabetic kidney.
Clinical Trial – Cardiac Output Changes During Hyperbaric and Isobaric Bupivacaine in Patients Undergoing Cesarean Section
Spinal block leads to the reduction of systemic vascular resistance (SVR) which may effect
the cardiac output. Ngan Kee et al. has showed that spina block with 0.5% hyperbaric
bupivacaine for Cesarean section combined with intravenous infusion norepinephrine had higher
cardiac output than those who received phenylephrine
Carbon monoxide and ST-elevation myocardial infarction: case reports.
Abstract: We describe two cases of myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation on electrocardiogram associated with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, a condition rarely reported in the literature. The first was a 62-year-old woman who experienced...
Seizures during hyperbaric oxygen therapy: retrospective analysis of 62,614 treatment sessions.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO₂) therapy is considered to be a generally safe therapy. However, data regarding seizure incidence during HBO₂ therapy as a clinical presentation of central nervous system- (CNS) related oxygen toxicity are...
Seizures during hyperbaric oxygen therapy: retrospective analysis of 62,614 treatment sessions.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO₂) therapy is considered to be a generally safe therapy. However, data regarding seizure incidence during HBO₂ therapy as a clinical presentation of central nervous system- (CNS) related oxygen toxicity are...