Forty patients with cerebral infarction associated with occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA) or the middle cerebral artery (MCA) were treated with hyperbaric oxygenation (HO). EEG analyses were performed regularly in order to assess the course of the cerebral lesion. Patients in an early post-stroke stage (III B) and patients in a chronic post-stroke stage (IV) had the changes in EEG ...

The effects of hyperbaric oxygen and hypotension on postischemic cerebral edema were studied in cats. The middle cerebral artery (MCA) was transorbitally occluded for 3 hours and reperfused for 3 hours, and cats whose cortical blood flow (CoBF) decreased to lower than 10 ml/100 g/min with MCA occlusion were included in the study. Ten cats were used as controls, six were in the hypotension group...

PURPOSE Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has shown efficacies in the treatment of a number of diseases. The goal of this study was to develop a rodent hyperbaric chamber for MRI studies and to investigate the effects of hyperbaric air and hyperbaric oxygen on local magnetic field (B0 ) and MRI relaxation parameters in the rat brain. METHODS A hyperbaric chamber, constructed to fit inside an animal M...

BACKGROUND Both negative wound pressure therapy (NPWT) and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) are useful modalities in the treatment of problem wounds. However, none of the commercially available portable negative-pressure devices have been certified safe for use in a recompression chamber. Thus, the NPWT device is removed while the patient undergoes HBOT. The purpose of this study is to demonstr...

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) treatment is able to cause any changes in the nasal peak inspiratory flow (NPIF) values of patients submitted to this therapy. STUDY DESIGN NPIF was measured in a group of 13 patients who were submitted to at least 10 sessions of 75 minutes long HBO2 treatments over a period of 20 days. HBO2 was prescribed to the patients to treat hea...