Hyperbaric oxygenation treats inadequate blood supply to the heart and brain and improves the efficiency of oxygen supply to the heart and brain. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are a serious threat to human health and are common and frequent clinical diseases. Many of these diseases are related to ischemia and hypoxia, such as coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, cerebral hypoperfusion, and cerebral infarction, and long-term chronic hypoxia is one of the main causes of their onset and progression. As the treatment with the highest clinical oxygen efficacy rate, hyperbaric oxygen has a better therapeutic effect on many cerebrovascular diseases. At the same time, regular oxygen intake can delay or avoid the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases to a certain extent. The proper use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy protects the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems and protects our health!
Cardiovascular diseases have become a common and frequent occurrence in life. Among them, coronary heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, and cerebral infarction are mostly related to partial, or complete blockage of blood vessels caused by atherosclerosis, which produces a series of clinical symptoms due to the lack of blood and oxygen in the corresponding tissues.
Improving blood and oxygen supply to the tissues is the key to the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Oxygen under normobaric pressure can help patients’ recovery to a certain extent. Many people do not know that hyperbaric oxygen is
currently the most clinically effective method of oxygen therapy, and can have unexpected effects in protecting the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular vessels and improving circulation, which is one of the measures for the comprehensive treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Properly administered hyperbaric oxygen therapy can protect your heart and brain vessels and safeguard your health.
Mechanism of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Cardiovascular Diseases
Hyperbaric oxygen can cause a significant increase in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the blood, a significant increase in blood oxygen tension, and 14 times the usual partial pressure of blood oxygen. It can increase the oxygen storage capacity of tissues and improve the diffusion rate and effective diffusion distance of blood oxygen. It deeply improves ischemia and hypoxia caused by various types of circulatory disorders, repairs damaged tissues and improves the function of all body systems.
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The oxygen diffusion distance within the capillaries increases during hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Taking the capillaries in the cerebral cortex as an example, breathing pure oxygen at 3ATA pressure, the oxygen diffusion distance can rise from 30 microns to 100 microns, which can enhance the blood rheological function of the microcirculation and improve the blood supply to ischemic and hypoxic tissues.
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Hyperbaric oxygen enhances the penetration of oxygen during dispersion, thereby treating local tissue cellular hypoxia due to vascular blockage, vascular spasm, or cellular edema.
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Hyperbaric oxygen promotes capillary renewal and the formation of collateral circulation to save nerve cells in the “ischaemic penumbra”, and the formation of a large number of microvessels can repair some diseased cerebral vessels and promote neurological recovery.
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Hyperbaric oxygen reduces blood viscosity, inhibits platelet aggregation, enhances the activity of fibrinase, prevents thrombosis, and promotes the dissolution and absorption of blood clots.
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Hyperbaric oxygen can regulate lipid metabolism, improve the level of lipid metabolism, facilitate weight loss, and prevent and repair the damage caused by high blood lipids to blood vessels, reducing the incidence of cerebrovascular disease.
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Hyperbaric oxygen can mobilize the body’s own regulatory potential, promptly correct metabolic disorders, prevent myocardial ischemia, hypoxia, and pulmonary edema, promote endocrine and glucose utilization, enhance liver and kidney functions, promote detoxification and urination functions, maintain water-electrolyte balance and improve nutrition, etc. It is conducive to improving the body’s overall immune defense ability.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy enables brain tissues to obtain sufficient oxygen supply, repairs brain mitochondrial functions, and gradually restores the physiological activities of the dysfunctional cerebral cortex, which can lead to good sleep, good mood, reduced or disappearance of psychological stress, and a positive and optimistic attitude towards life, all of which are particularly beneficial to the health of the cardiovascular system.
Indications for hyperbaric oxygen therapy for cardiovascular disease
Recovery from myocardial infarction and post-infarction syndrome, coronary heart disease combined with cerebral infarction, sudden coronary death after successful resuscitation, cerebral infarction, craniocerebral trauma, and brain dysfunction (cerebral contusion, concussion, intracranial hematoma, etc.), cerebral blood supply deficiency, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, vertigo syndrome, cerebral hemorrhage, brain dysfunction after cardiopulmonary resuscitation, viral encephalitis and sequelae, etc.
