Hyperbaric oxygen for a thalassaemic leg ulcer.
A thalassaemic ulcer in a male Greek Cypriot patient, resistant to standard medical treatment, was treated using hyperbaric oxygen in a recompression chamber. The patient breathed 100% oxygen by face mask whilst the chamber was compressed with air to a pressure of 2.5 atmospheres absolute. The ulcer became fully epithelialised within three weeks of starting treatment.
D000328:Adult; D003535:Cyprus / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D013789:Thalassemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D006113:United Kingdom