P HYPOSPADIA SURGERY X HBARIC O2
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- This was a retrospective study of boys undergoing two-stage tubularized auto-graft repair for failed hypospadias repair with or without preoperative hyperbaric oxygen therapy (5 days per week for 4 weeks before surgery and 10 sessions after the first stage). All 7 boys who underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy versus just 57% of the 14 not receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy had quality graft take permitting progression to second-stage repair.
- Although limited by its nonrandomized nature and potential associated biases, these results suggest that further investigation is needed into the role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in re-do hypospadias surgery.
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