[Experience with the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondyloarthritis]. / Opyt lecheniia bol'nykh s ankiloziruiushchim spondiloartritom.

Hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) for ankylosing spondylarthritis was employed in Kuibyshev Medical Institute for 10 years. The response was registered in 94.4% ot 142 patients treated as shown by positive changes in external respiration, performance status, electromyographic, laboratory, biochemical and immunological findings.

[Changes in the parameters of external respiration in patients with Bechterew's disease treated by hyperbaric oxygenation]. / Izmenenie parametrov vneshnego dykhaniia u bol'nykh bolezn'iu Bekhtereva, lechennykh metodom giperbaricheskoi oksigenatsii.

The method of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) has been used in the treatment of the patients with Bechterew's disease at the Clinic of Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Field Surgery of the Kuibyshev Medical Institute since 1980. The changes in the values of the external respiration function in 111 patients have been studied. After 20 HBO procedures there has been a normalization of the most values of external respiration.