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Hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of patients with cerebral stroke, brain trauma, and neurologic disease

Overview of attention for article published in Advances in Therapy, November 2005
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Title
Hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of patients with cerebral stroke, brain trauma, and neurologic disease
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Advances in Therapy, November 2005
DOI 10.1007/bf02849960
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Noori S. Al-Waili, Glenn J. Butler, Jorge Beale, Mahdi S. Abdullah, R. W. Bill Hamilton, Boke Y. Lee, Paul Lucus, Michael W. Allen, Richard L. Petrillo, Zev Carrey, Michael Finkelstein

Abstract

Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy has been used to treat patients with numerous disorders, including stroke. This treatment has been shown to decrease cerebral edema, normalize water content in the brain, decrease the severity of brain infarction, and maintain blood-brain barrier integrity. In addition, HBO therapy attenuates motor deficits, decreases the risks of sequelae, and prevents recurrent cerebral circulatory disorders, thereby leading to improved outcomes and survival. Hyperbaric oxygen also accelerates the regression of atherosclerotic lesions, promotes antioxidant defenses, and suppresses the proliferation of macrophages and foam cells in atherosclerotic lesions. Although no medical treatment is available for patients with cerebral palsy, in some studies, HBO therapy has improved the function of damaged cells, attenuated the effects of hypoxia on the neonatal brain, enhanced gross motor function and fine motor control, and alleviated spasticity. In the treatment of patients with migraine, HBO therapy has been shown to reduce intracranial pressure significantly and abort acute attacks of migraine, reduce migraine headache pain, and prevent cluster headache. In studies that investigated the effects of HBO therapy on the damaged brain, the treatment was found to inhibit neuronal death, arrest the progression of radiation-induced neurologic necrosis, improve blood flow in regions affected by chronic neurologic disease as well as aerobic metabolism in brain injury, and accelerate the resolution of clinical symptoms. Hyperbaric oxygen has also been reported to accelerate neurologic recovery after spinal cord injury by ameliorating mitochondrial dysfunction in the motor cortex and spinal cord, arresting the spread of hemorrhage, reversing hypoxia, and reducing edema. HBO has enhanced wound healing in patients with chronic osteomyelitis. The results of HBO therapy in the treatment of patients with stroke, atherosclerosis, cerebral palsy, intracranial pressure, headache, and brain and spinal cord injury are promising and warrant further investigation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 120 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 16%
Student > Bachelor 13 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Student > Master 9 7%
Other 8 7%
Other 25 21%
Unknown 35 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 38%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 7%
Neuroscience 5 4%
Psychology 4 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 42 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 April 2018.
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#7,260,381
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Outputs from Advances in Therapy
#670
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Outputs of similar age
#20,405
of 61,793 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Advances in Therapy
#3
of 4 outputs
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