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Successful hyperbaric oxygenation for radiation cystitis due to excessive irradiation to uterus cancer
T Nakada1, T Yamaguchi, I Sasagawa
1Department of Urology, Yamagata University, School of Medicine, Japan.
European Urology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
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 pressures for 90-120 min daily from 20 to 61 days with the average of 45 +/- 7 days, mean +/- standard error). Except in 1 patient symptoms and cystoscopic findings were improved. No side effects were found. Recurrence of radiation cystitis never occurred during the follow-up period (1.0 +/- 0.1 years). Hyperbaric oxygenation treatment in this pressure environment appears to have a beneficial effect of this disorder.