[Elective indication for hyperbaric oxygen therapy].
Abstract: Creation of an hyperbaric medical center in Geneva allows development of elective indications of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Physiologics effects of hyperbaric oxygen are well known, but credibles clinicals trials lacks. Frequents indications such as diabetic...
[Septic shock in a patient with the Fournièr gangrene with fatal outcome].
Abstract: The authors present a case of a patient with developed Fournièr gangrene and septic shock. Fournièr gangrene belongs to the group of local non-specific infection of soft tissues (NSTI). Its incidence is relatively low, but the infection is extraordinary...
[Teeth and irradiation: dental care and treatment of osteoradionecrosis after irradiation in head and neck cancer].
Abstract: Pre-irradiation dental care depends on teeth health, fields and dose of irradiation, compliance to fluorides, cessation of tobacco and psychosocial cofactors. Dental care aims at preventing complications and preserving the quality of life (eating, speech,...
[Hyperbaric Oxygenation – utility in intensive therapy – part 1].
Abstract: Hyperbaric Oxygenation (HBO) is a medical treatment, in which a patient breathes 100 % oxygen inside a treatment chamber at a pressure higher than at sea level. The indication for HBO has to be considered whenever gas bubbles present in tissue or blood...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of radiation-induced injury in the head and neck region: a review of the literature.
Abstract: Radiotherapy is generally used in the treatment of malignant tumors in the head and neck region. It causes a hypoxic, hypocellular, and hypovascular environment that leads to injury to surrounding normal tissue, both acute and chronic, ranging from...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of radiation-induced injury in the head and neck region: a review of the literature.
Abstract: Radiotherapy is generally used in the treatment of malignant tumors in the head and neck region. It causes a hypoxic, hypocellular, and hypovascular environment that leads to injury to surrounding normal tissue, both acute and chronic, ranging from...
Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in cancer patients and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Abstract: Erkan, Bilgi, Mutluoğlu, Uzun, , , , , (2009). Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in cancer patients and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. JOP : Journal of the pancreas, 2009 Sep;10(5):579-80; author reply...
Diagnosis and management of necrotising fasciitis: a multiparametric approach.
Abstract: Necrotising fasciitis (NF) is situated with myositis and myonecrosis at the severe end of a spectrum of skin and soft tissue infections but is far removed from erisepelas, impetigo and cellulitis. Inexperienced clinicians are easily misled by the protean...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for radiation-induced brain necrosis in a patient with primary central nervous system lymphoma.
Abstract: A 45-year-old man who developed brain radionecrosis in the right frontal and left temporoparietal lobes after receiving whole brain radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery for primary central nervous system lymphoma. Since high dose steroid treatment...