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Other treatments include core decompression, whereby internal bone pressure is relieved by drilling a hole into the bone, and a living bone chip and an electrical device to stimulate new vascular growth are implanted; and the free vascular fibular graft (FVFG), in which a portion of the fibula, along with its blood supply, is removed and ...
Core decompression, otherwise often used to treat avascular necrosis, is a surgical procedure that involves drilling a hole into dead bone tissue, leading to the reduction of pressure within the bone and increase of blood flow; thus, the excess fluid can be drained and the edema treated. [13]
Postoperative radiation is delivered within 2–3 weeks of surgical decompression. Emergency radiation therapy (usually 20 grays in 5 fractions, 30 grays in 10 fractions or 8 grays in 1 fraction) is the mainstay of treatment for malignant spinal cord compression.
Spinal decompression is the relief of pressure on the spinal cord or on one or more compressed nerve roots passing through or exiting the spinal column. [1] Decompression of the spinal neural elements is a key component in treating spinal radiculopathy , myelopathy and claudication .
Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from ...
Altitude decompression may occur as a decompression from saturation at a lower altitude, or as decompression from an excursion to a lower altitude, in the case of people living at high altitude, making a short duration trip to low altitude, and returning, or a person decompressing from a dive at altitude, which is a special case of diving ...
Decompression (comics), in comic book storytelling, is the stylistic choice to tell a story mainly by visuals, with few words. Decompression, a 2012 novel by Juli Zeh; Decompression (surgery), a procedure used to reduce pressure on a compressed structure, such as spinal decompression
A decompression stop is the period a diver must spend at a relatively shallow constant depth during ascent after a dive to safely eliminate absorbed inert gases from the body tissues sufficiently to avoid decompression sickness. The practice of making decompression stops is called staged decompression, [16] [23] as opposed to continuous ...