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
Osteomyelitis of the jaws: a 50-year perspective.
Abstract: The incidence of osteomyelitis of the jaws has decreased dramatically, except for a few subsets of individuals. This has been due, in no small part, to the availability of bacteriocidal antimicrobial therapy. The pathogenesis of...
Treatment of necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum by hyperbaric oxygen.
Abstract: Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum is a chronic cutaneous complication of diabetes mellitus with microangiopathy as an important pathophysiologic factor. Because of the known success of hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of chronic...
Hyperbaric oxygen and acetazolamide improve visual acuity in patients with cystoid macular edema by different mechanisms.
Abstract: Miyake, Awaya, Takahashi, Tomita, Hirano, , , , (1993). Hyperbaric oxygen and acetazolamide improve visual acuity in patients with cystoid macular edema by different mechanisms. Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 1993...
Progressive alterations in lipid and glucose metabolism during short-term fasting in young adult men
Abstract Stable isotope tracers and indirect calorimetry were used to evaluate the progressive alterations in lipid and glucose metabolism after 12, 18, 24, 30, 42, 54, and 72 h of fasting in six healthy male volunteers. The rates of appearance...
[Postoperative disturbance of consciousness due to tumor emboli of the orifice of pulmonary artery].
Abstract: We reported a case of an abrupt hypotension and hypoxemia which lasted more than 60 min due to emboli of tumor at the orifice of the pulmonary artery during operation. Although the emboli were removed under the cardiopulmonary bypass...
Hyperbaric oxygen. Still unproved in necrotising fasciitis.
Abstract: Burge, , , , , , , , (1993). Hyperbaric oxygen. Still unproved in necrotising fasciitis. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1993 Oct;307(6909):936. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8267775
Hyperbaric oxygen limits infarct size in ischemic rabbit myocardium in vivo.
Abstract: We explored the ability of increased oxygen pressure to modify necrosis in an open-chest rabbit model of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion. A branch of the left coronary artery was occluded for 30 minutes followed by 3 hours of...
Hyperbaric oxygen and perineal Crohn’s disease: a follow-up.
Abstract: Brady (1993). Hyperbaric oxygen and perineal Crohn's disease: a follow-up. Gastroenterology, 1993 Oct;105(4):1264. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8405878
Therapeutic experience of hyperbaric oxygenation in radiation colitis. Report of a case.
Abstract: The usefulness of the hyperbaric oxygenation in a patient with radiation colitis was evaluated. The patient had severe bleeding from the large bowel which resulted from a pelvic radiation therapy for prostatic carcinoma and was...