Treatment of radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen.
A patient with severe radiation cystitis resistant to current therapy was treated with hyperbaric oxygen to facilitate closure of a vesicocutaneous fistula. In addition to the fistula healing, her symptoms of radiation cystitis have not recurred for over a year and a half.
D000368:Aged; D003556:Cystitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D001747:Urinary Bladder Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy