Therapeutic effect of hyperbaric oxygen in psoriasis vulgaris: two case reports and a review of the literature.
Abstract: Psoriasis is an inflammatory and immunological cutaneous disease. The high morbidity in patients with psoriasis results from severe clinical manifestations and/or adverse effects of treatment. The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and Federal Medicare...
Major neurological events following foam sclerotherapy.
Abstract: This report describes two complications of severe neurologic alterations (TIA, CVA) after foamed sclerotherapy injection. Using foam sclerotherapy in accepted concentrations, volume, and in standard ratio of air to sclerosant, two serious neurologic...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for cesarean section wound in diabetes mellitus gravida.
Abstract: We report the use of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy to treat the complication of necrotizing fasciitis following Cesarean section in a postpartum gravida with diabetes mellitus. Our patient was a 25-year-old, gravida 1, para 1, woman with a history of type...
Neuroprotective Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Brain Injury Is Mediated by Preservation of Mitochondrial Membrane Properties
Abstract Recent experimental data have shown that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) was associated increased Bcl-2 expression at the injury site that correlated with reduced apoptosis. We hypothesized that HBOT mediated enhancement of Bcl-2 expression and increased...
Early hyperbaric oxygen therapy for reducing radiotherapy side effects: early results of a randomized trial in oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal cancer.
Abstract: Comparison of quality of life (QoL) and side effects in a randomized trial for early hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) after radiotherapy (RT). From 2006, 19 patients with tumor originating from the tonsillar fossa and/or soft palate (15), base of tongue (1),...
Early complications following haematopoietic SCT in children.
Abstract: Early complications can be defined as those occurring within 100 days after transplant. Both epithelial and endothelial damage represent the pathogenetic basis for the onset of the most frequent complications. Clinical features related to endothelial damage...
Normobaric and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for migraine and cluster headache.
Abstract: Migraine and cluster headaches are severe and disabling. Migraine affects up to 18% of women, while cluster headaches are much less common (0.2% of the population). A number of acute and prophylactic therapies are available. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy has recently emerged as a potential primary option for the management of hemorrhagic cystitis. We review our experience treating hemorrhagic cystitis with HBO. Between January 2001 and May 2007, eight patients with...
Effect of hyperbaric oxygen on patients with traumatic brain injury.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the medical therapeutic use of oxygen at a higher atmospheric pressure. The United States Food and Drug Administration have approved several clinical applications for HBOT, but HBOT in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients...