Nonsurgical modalities to enhance healing and care of soft tissue wounds.
Abstract: The rapidly aging population and patients with multiple concomitant pathologies present an increasing population of patients with nonhealing and problem wounds causing an unwelcome challenge for all health care providers. Many of these patients are not...
[Anaerobic infections of the soft tissues].
Abstract: Anaerobic soft tissue infections are still life threatening infections. Although their frequency is actually moderate; they remain severe because physicians are often insufficiently aware of them. Although the classification between myonecrosis and...
[Necrotizing fasciitis cause by beta-hemolytic streptococci with fatal outcome–a case report].
Abstract: The authors report two cases of necrotizing fascilitis (NF) occurring after surgical interventions on the breast (reduction mammoplasty in one patient and mastectomy for breast cancer in the other). In both cases the etiologic agent were group A pyogenic...
Pulmonary barotrauma of a diver using an oxygen rebreathing diving apparatus.
Abstract: A 22-yr-old healthy male diver performed a dive using a closed circuit oxygen rebreathing apparatus according to normal procedure. After the dive he developed clinical symptoms of mediastinal emphysema. A chest X-ray taken 1 d after the dive showed a...
Hyperbaric oxygen an adjunctive treatment for delayed radiation injuries of the abdomen and pelvis.
Abstract: Radiation therapy is often utilized as adjunctive or primary treatment for malignancies of the abdomen and pelvis. Radiation complications are infrequent, but can be life threatening or significantly diminish the quality of life. Radiation necrosis is an...
[Clinical analysis of diffuse axonal injury].
Abstract: Sixty cases of diffuse axonal injury were analysed in this paper. All cases were caused by traffic accident; the mortality was 53.12%. Clinical manifestations were post-traumatic immediate and continuous coma with severe dysfunction of brain stem. MRI is...
Adjunctive systemic hyperbaric oxygen therapy in treatment of severe prevalently ischemic diabetic foot ulcer. A randomized study.
Abstract: To evaluate the effectiveness of systemic hyperbaric oxygen therapy (s HBOT) in addition to a comprehensive protocol in decreasing major amputation rate in diabetic patients hospitalized for severe foot ulcer. From August 1993 to August 1995, 70 diabetic...
Late deterioration after decompression illness affecting the spinal cord.
Abstract: A former amateur diver presented with a progressive paraparesis. Thirteen years previously he had developed acute spinal cord dysfunction immediately after dry hyperbaric exposure. He had completely recovered motor function in the intervening period. No...
[Soft tissue necrotising infections: rapid diagnosis, early surgical treatment and less hyperbaric oxygen].
Abstract: Sánchez Porto, , , , , , , , (1996). [Soft tissue necrotising infections: rapid diagnosis, early surgical treatment and less hyperbaric oxygen]. Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica, 1996...