Patients will have a Functional MRI before and after 10 hyperbaric Oxygen treatments.
Functional MRI studies will be done before and 4-6 weeks after Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment to assess changes in connectivity of resting state neural networks. 10 hyperbaric treatments at 2 atmospheres absolute for 1 hour at pressure will be administered. A review of symptoms and and thorough clinical neurological examination by an experienced neurologist familiar with these studies will be done before and 4-6 weeks after the hyperbaric treatments.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
6
Patients are treated in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for 1 hour at 2ATA, 10 times over 2 consecutive weeks, 5 times per week
St. Luke's hospital
Chesterfield, Missouri, United States
St. Luke's Hospital
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology/Washington University Medical School
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Change in average functional connectivity (fc) within the Default Mode Network and the Dorsal Attention Network will be obtained by resting state network (rsn) functional connectivity (rsnfc) MRI.
Functional connectivity MRI of resting state neural networks.
Time frame: Change in baseline rsnfc before and 4 weeks after hyperbaric oxygen
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