Successful treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen.
Eur Urol
; 16(5): 354-6, 1989.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2776806
ABSTRACT
This report describes the results of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in 10 patients with radiation-induced cystitis. Severe macroscopic hematuria was present in all patients and was resistant to current therapy. Previously 8 patients had been treated for bladder carcinoma and 2 for prostatic carcinoma with 60 Gy radiotherapy. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy consisted of 20 sessions of 100% oxygen inhalation at 3 bar pressure for 90 min. In 6 patients the macroscopic hematuria stopped completely and it decreased in the other patients. These 4 patients had recurrent or residual bladder malignancies.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Therapeutic Methods and Therapies TCIM:
Terapias_biologicas
/
Oxigenoterapia_hiperbrica
Main subject:
Radiotherapy
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Cystitis
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Hyperbaric Oxygenation
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
Eur Urol
Year:
1989
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Netherlands