{"title":"Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for avascular necrosis of the femoral head: A case report.","authors":"Adam Pearl, Steven Pearl","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The hip is the most common location for avascular necrosis of the femoral head (AVN), with an estimated incidence in the United States of 10,000 to 20,000 new cases per year. The current standard of care for early disease is core decompression, with bone marrow injections becoming more commonplace. Hyperbaric oxygen enhances oxygen delivery to tissue, promotes an anti-inflammatory and pro-healing environment, and helps initiate angiogenesis. We believe that these properties of HBO<sub>2</sub> make it a unique tool for AVN and applied it in conjunction with the standard of care for our patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":49396,"journal":{"name":"Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The hip is the most common location for avascular necrosis of the femoral head (AVN), with an estimated incidence in the United States of 10,000 to 20,000 new cases per year. The current standard of care for early disease is core decompression, with bone marrow injections becoming more commonplace. Hyperbaric oxygen enhances oxygen delivery to tissue, promotes an anti-inflammatory and pro-healing environment, and helps initiate angiogenesis. We believe that these properties of HBO2 make it a unique tool for AVN and applied it in conjunction with the standard of care for our patient.
期刊介绍:
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal accepts manuscripts for publication that are related to the areas of diving
research and physiology, hyperbaric medicine and oxygen therapy, submarine medicine, naval medicine and clinical research
related to the above topics. To be considered for UHM scientific papers must deal with significant and new research in an
area related to biological, physical and clinical phenomena related to the above environments.