Abstract: Laryngeal necrosis is a rare complication of therapeutic radiation, but when it does occur there is no established, definitive treatment and laryngectomy is frequently required. This report is a retrospective review of all patients referred for hyperbaric...
HBOT Research
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Extivita maintains an extensive research & publication database for various diseases and therapies such as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Neurofeedback, Nutritional IV Therapy, Infrared Sauna, and Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy.
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Hyperbaric oxygen and the cancer patient: a survey of practice patterns.
Abstract: A questionnaire was sent to 179 clinical hyperbaric medicine facilities to survey treatment policies and referral patterns for patients with a history of malignancy. Eighty-five surveys were returned. Most respondents indicated that they would accept...
Treatment of necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum by hyperbaric oxygen.
Abstract: Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum is a chronic cutaneous complication of diabetes mellitus with microangiopathy as an important pathophysiologic factor. Because of the known success of hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of chronic non-healing wounds, we...
Hyperbaric oxygen and acetazolamide improve visual acuity in patients with cystoid macular edema by different mechanisms.
Abstract: Miyake, Awaya, Takahashi, Tomita, Hirano, , , , (1993). Hyperbaric oxygen and acetazolamide improve visual acuity in patients with cystoid macular edema by different mechanisms. Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 1993...
Progressive alterations in lipid and glucose metabolism during short-term fasting in young adult men
Abstract Stable isotope tracers and indirect calorimetry were used to evaluate the progressive alterations in lipid and glucose metabolism after 12, 18, 24, 30, 42, 54, and 72 h of fasting in six healthy male volunteers. The rates of appearance (Ra) of glycerol and...
[Postoperative disturbance of consciousness due to tumor emboli of the orifice of pulmonary artery].
Abstract: We reported a case of an abrupt hypotension and hypoxemia which lasted more than 60 min due to emboli of tumor at the orifice of the pulmonary artery during operation. Although the emboli were removed under the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and later the...
Hyperbaric oxygen. Still unproved in necrotising fasciitis.
Abstract: Burge, , , , , , , , (1993). Hyperbaric oxygen. Still unproved in necrotising fasciitis. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1993 Oct;307(6909):936. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8267775
Dysbarism: the medical problems from high and low atmospheric pressure.
Abstract: The most serious problems resulting from a change in ambient pressure are pulmonary barotrauma with air embolism and decompression sickness. The small differential pressures used in ventilators at atmospheric pressure may tear lung tissue and, in diving,...
Micturitional disturbance in radiation myelopathy.
Abstract: Detailed micturitional histories and urodynamic studies were performed in five patients with radiation myelopathy. All patients had micturitional symptoms that were irritative in five and obstructive in four, and four had urinary incontinence. Urodynamic...


