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
Chronic non-hematogenous osteomyelitis treated with adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen.
Abstract: Between 1979 and 1982, thirty-eight patients with chronic non-hematogenous osteomyelitis were treated by local débridements of the wound, prolonged parenteral administration of antibiotics, and an average of forty-eight once-a-day...
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen, useful in treating patients with extensive burns, was used alone in the treatment of three patients with drug-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis. These conditions, although they have different causes, result in a...
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[Ineffectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in multiple sclerosis. A randomized placebo-controlled double-blind study].
Abstract: Seventeen patients with definite and progressive multiple sclerosis entered a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled therapeutic trial of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO). Exposure in monoplace chamber was 90 minutes long each time, 5 days a...
[Hyperbaric oxygenation in neurotraumatology].
Abstract: The use of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) as a therapeutic measure has a favorable effect, in the postoperative period also, on traumatic affections of different levels of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve trunks...
Hyperbaric oxygen in multiple sclerosis: discussion paper.
Abstract: Bates, , , , , , , , (1986). Hyperbaric oxygen in multiple sclerosis: discussion paper. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1986 Sep;79(9):535-7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3534267
[Hyperbaric oxygenation in neurotraumatology].
Abstract: The use of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) as a therapeutic measure has a favorable effect, in the postoperative period also, on traumatic affections of different levels of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve trunks...
[Hyperbaric oxygenation in the complex treatment of acute leukemia in children].
Abstract: Pakhomov, Erin, Kostiunin, Petrova, , , , , (1986). [Hyperbaric oxygenation in the complex treatment of acute leukemia in children]. Pediatriia, 1986 Aug;(8):31-2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3463930
Hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of radiation-induced optic neuropathy.
Abstract: Four patients with radiation-induced optic neuropathies were treated with hyperbaric oxygen. They had received radiation therapy for treatment of pituitary tumors, reticulum cell sarcoma, and meningioma. Two presented with amaurosis fugax...
Late results of a trial of hyperbaric oxygen and radiotherapy in head and neck cancer: a rationale for hypoxic cell sensitizers?
Abstract: 104 patients with head and neck cancer were entered into a prospective controlled trial of radiotherapy in hyperbaric oxygen (HBO). The trial compared 10 fractions of radiotherapy in HBO with 30 fractions of radiotherapy in air. Survival...