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MEDICAL GAS RESEARCH
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 133-143Publisher
MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA PVT LTD
DOI: 10.4103/2045-9912.208520
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spinal cord injury; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; preconditioning; apoptosis; inflammation; oxidative stress; angiogenesis; spinal cord edema; autophagy
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a complex disease process that involves both primary and secondary mechanisms of injury and can leave patients with devastating functional impairment as well as psychological debilitation. While no curative treatment is available for spinal cord injury, current therapeutic approaches focus on reducing the secondary injury that follows SCI. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy has shown promising neuroprotective effects in several experimental studies, but the limited number of clinical reports have shown mixed findings. This review will provide an overview of the potential mechanisms by which HBO therapy may exert neuroprotection, provide a summary of the clinical application of HBO therapy in patients with SCI, and discuss avenues for future studies.
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