...Teruhiro Nakada; Toshiyuki Yamaguchi; Isoji Sasagawa; Yoko Kubota; Hotoshi Suzuki; Ken Izumiya Six female patients with radiation cystitis, induced by previous pelvic radiation to uterus cancer, were treated with hyperbaric oxygenation (30-35% of oxygen concentration at 2 atmospheric absolute...

... saline and instillation of prostaglandin F2a, failed to totally control hemorrhage. We then used hyperbaric oxygen at an absolute pressure of 2 atm, 5 days a week for 8 consecutive weeks. The bleeding ceased completely by the end of treatment and the patient remained free of hematuria thereafter. No side...

...Teruhiro Nakada Although considerable advances have been made in the application of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) on tumor treatment in the recent past, many difficulties persist due to conflicting results and the understanding of its mechanism. We tested whether HBO treatment in clinical use could...

...B.G. Rijkmans; D.J. Bakker; N.F. Dabhoiwala; K.H. Kurth 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...