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Successful treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen
B G Rijkmans1, D J Bakker, N F Dabhoiwala
1Department of Urology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
European Urology
|January 1, 1989
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.