title: Therapeutic experience of hyperbaric oxygenation in radiation colitis. Report of a case.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The usefulness of the hyperbaric oxygenation in a patient with radiation colitis was evaluated.
  
  
  METHODS
  The patient had severe bleeding from the large bowel which resulted from a pelvic radiation therapy for prostatic carcinoma and was histologically diagnosed as radiation colitis. Hyperbaric oxygenation therapy consisting of 100 percent oxygen inhalation at two absolute atmospheric pressures 90 minutes daily for 30 days was performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The treatment succeeded in stopping gross hemorrhage and reversed endoscopic bowel findings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The effect of the hyperbaric oxygenation therapy of radiation colitis is elucidated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Yamagata University, School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sasagawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishigooka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kakizaki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003092:Colitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D006801:Humans; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D007420:Intestine, Large / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000628:therapy*