Taste perception and food preferences in patients with diabetic foot ulcers before and after hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) on taste perception and food preferences in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.

Methods: The study involved 75 healthy people (Group C) and 23 patients with diabetic foot ulcers before HBOT (Group Db) and after 25-30 HBOT treatments (Group Da) (2.5 ATA, 87 min).

Thermal imaging and planimetry evaluation of the results of chronic wounds treatment with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Background: One of the methods to treat chronic wounds is the use of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO). Objective measurement of the wound surface is an important element in the process of monitoring and predicting the progress of treatment.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) on ulcer wound healing in patients with chronic venous insufficiency ulcers and diabetic foot syndrome using thermal imaging and computerized planimetry.

Computerized planimetry evaluation of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of diabetic foot.

Background: Diabetic foot ulcer is one of the major complications of diabetes mellitus in adults.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to conduct a planimetry evaluation of the effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in the treatment of patients with vascular disorders caused by diabetic foot.

Material And Methods: The study included 94 patients, 30 females (32%) and 64 males (68%), aged 33-76 years, with diabetes lasting 1.

Alterations in taste perception as a result of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

The present study evaluates the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on taste sensitivity, hedonic perception of taste, and food preferences. The studied groups included 197 people in total (79 in the study group; 118 in the control group). All patients from the study group were treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy due to chronic non-healing wounds.

[Respiratory tract burn injuries].

Respiratory tract burns are one of the most serious injuries of human organism. They often accompany severe skin burns, increasing morbidity and mortality. Pathologic events happening in the lungs in the course of inhalation injury consist of: edema and necrosis of bronchial mucosa, increase of bronchial blood flow and vascular permeability, recruitment of inflammatory mediators, and obturation of bronchial tract with the casts composed of mucus, tissue debris, neutrophils and fibrin.

[Clinical aspects of hyperbaric oxygenation].

Authors have presented methods of hyperbaric treatment used in the clinical settings. They have commented on the problem of oxygen toxicity, oxygen poisoning and indications and contraindications to hyperbaric oxygenation. In spite of side effects and possible complications, HBO can be a valuable method of treatment of many diseases.