Document Category: Surgery and transplant

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves colorectal anastomotic healing

PURPOSE: Hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) has been found to improve the healing of poorly oxygenated tissues. This study aimed to investigate the influence of HBOT on the healing in ischemic colorectal anastomosis. METHODS: Forty Wistar rats were randomly divided into a treatment group that received HBOT for 10 consecutive days (7 days before and 3 days after surgery), or in a control group, which did …

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for hepatic artery thrombosis after liver transplantation in children

Early hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) after pediatric orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) can cause significant morbidity and mortality, leading to liver failure or septic complications requiring urgent retransplantation. Experimental evidence that hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) may ameliorate hepatic ischemic-reperfusion injury led to this study of HBO in pediatric liver transplant recipients who developed HAT. Children undergoing OLT under primary tacrolimus immunosuppression and University of Wisconsin organ preservation between August 1, 1989, and December 31, 1998, …

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and liver transplantation

Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for end stage liver disease and is often used for primary liver malignancies.The main limitation of its wider application is the availability of suitable donor organs. The use of marginal donor organs,split-liver transplantation and living-related liver transplantation techniques contribute to increase the donor pool.However, the use of these …

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Hyperbaric oxygen pretreatment and preconditioning

Exposure to hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) before a crucial event, with the plan to create a preventing therapeutic situation, has been defined “preconditioning” and is emerging as a useful adjunct both in diving medicine as well before ischemic or inflammatory events. Oxygen pre-breathing before diving has been extensively documented in recreational, technical, commercial and military diving for tissue denitrogenation, resulting in …

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Hyperbaric oxygen in the management of wound tissue necrosis after external dacrocystorhinostomy

Hyperbaric oxygen is an adjunctive treatment for promoting wound healing and reducing infection. We present an unusual case of wound tissue necrosis occurring after external dacryocystorhinostomy (ExtDCR) that was subsequently treated with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) and advancement flaps with good outcome. HBO improves vascularization of ischemic tissues after ExtDCR for greater success after reconstructive surgery.

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Can hyperbaric oxygen be used to prevent deep infections in neuro-muscular scoliosis surgery?

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of postoperative wound infection in patients with neuromuscular scoliosis surgery is significantly higher than that in patients with other spinal surgery. Hyperbaric oxygen has been used as a supplement to treat postsurgical infections. Our aim was to determine beneficiary effects of hyperbaric oxygen treatment in terms of prevention of postoperative deep infection in this specific group of patients in a retrospective study. METHODS: Forty two …

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Application of hyperbaric oxygen in liver transplantation

In recent years, hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) has been used in the treatment of a lot of diseases such as decompression sickness, arterial gas embolism, carbon dioxide poisoning, soft tissue infection, refractory osteomyelitis, and problematic wound, but little is known about its application in liver transplantation. Although several studies have been conducted to investigate the protective effects of HBO on liver transplantation and liver preservation, there …

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