HBOT News & Research
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is increasingly appearing in the news and new research as a treatment for a variety of conditions involving inflammation. Use the search or select an article below to keep up to date on the most recent HBOT News.
Recent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) News
A pilot study of hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of human stroke.
Abstract: We administered hyperbaric oxygen or air in a double-blind prospective protocol to 39 patients with ischemic cerebral infarction. We interrupted the study when we noticed what appeared to be a trend favoring the air-treated patients,...
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of healthy volunteers with u.v.-irradiated blister wounds.
Abstract: Healthy male volunteers were wounded by skin blistering, excision of the blister roof and u.v.-irradiation of the dermal wound bed. The lesions, painlessly inflicted on one forearm, were occluded, and no systemic therapy was given (n =...
Beneficial effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Nocardia brasiliensis soft-tissue infection.
Abstract: To report the success of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of Nocardia brasiliensis mycetoma. We believe this to be only the second report in the medical literature of hyperbaric oxygen therapy used in the therapy of nocardial...
[The role of hyperbaric oxygenation in the treatment of systemic diseases].
Abstract: Lukich, Kurakina, Poliakova, , , , , , (1991). [The role of hyperbaric oxygenation in the treatment of systemic diseases]. Klinicheskaia meditsina, 1991 Jul;69(7):15-20. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1682527
[Hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of osteoradionecrosis of the mandible].
Abstract: Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) of the mandible is one of the most dreaded complications in the treatment of cancer of the head and neck. If conservative and surgical treatment have not been successful, very often the only remaining solution is...
[The effect of hyperbaric oxygenation on the indices of lipid peroxidation in the blood of patients with lung cancer].
Abstract: The effect of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) used in the pre- and postoperative periods on the content of lipid peroxidation (LPO) products in the plasma and erythrocyte membranes and on the physiological antioxidant activity has been...
[Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for cystoid macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion].
Abstract: A prospective study was made to estimate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) on 14 eyes of cystoid macular edema (CME) secondary to retinal vein occlusion. The visual acuity was improved 2-6 lines (average 3.6 lines) after the...
[Experience with the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondyloarthritis].
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) for ankylosing spondylarthritis was employed in Kuibyshev Medical Institute for 10 years. The response was registered in 94.4% ot 142 patients treated as shown by positive changes in external respiration,...
[Treatment of patients with genital endometriosis and nephroptosis].
Abstract: The authors analyze the results of multiple-modality treatment of 31 patients suffering from genital endometriosis combined with nephroptosis. Nephropexy with a muscular flap was carried out in all the cases, followed by therapy for...