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Hyperbaric oxygen for a thalassaemic leg ulcer.
A thalassaemic ulcer in a male Greek Cypriot patient, resistant to standard medical treatment, was treated using hyperbaric oxygen in a recompression chamber. The patient breathed 100% oxygen by face mask whilst the chamber was compressed with air to a pressure of 2.5 atmospheres absolute. The ulcer became fully epithelialised within three weeks of starting treatment.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indian Dermatology Online Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2229-5178
DOI: 10.4103/2229-5178.142566