title: Oxygen therapy in pneumatosis coli. What is the minimum oxygen requirement?
abstract: Breathing high concentrations of oxygen at atmospheric pressure has been effective in achieving prompt objective and subjective relief in pneumatosis coli. A 22-year-old man was treated with 40% oxygen--a smaller concentration than used by previous physicians--supplied through a nonrebreathing mask. During meals, oxygen was given at 5 1/minute by nasal cannula. Oxygen therapy was maintained for seven days. A year after treatment the patient was still asymptomatic and free from disease. Using this therapeutic measure the benefit/risk ratio of oxygen therapy could be increased.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003113:Colonoscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011859:Radiography