Email this article Changes in paradoxical emboly readiness in divers with open oval window of the interatrial septum
- Authors: Onishchenko E.F.1, Berezina N.N.1, Onischenko EF2, Berezina NN2
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- Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Moscow
- Issue: Vol 83, No 4 (2011)
- Pages: 66-69
- Section: Editorial
- Submitted: 10.04.2020
- Published: 15.04.2011
- URL: https://ter-arkhiv.ru/0040-3660/article/view/30863
- ID: 30863
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Abstract
Aim. To study development of paradoxical emboly readiness (PER) in the process of diving.
Material and methods. Examination and observation covered 46 inexperienced divers (beginning divers - BD), 51 experienced divers (diving experience more than 3 years, ED) and 98 healthy individuals not interested in diving. The examinees were follow-up for 20 years. All of them had no organic cardiovascular pathology. PER was detected by the method of imitation modeling of underwater emboly using prolonged infusion contrast echocardiography (PICE) with hydrogen peroxide solution. The intensity of right-left interatrial bypass (RLIAB) was determined by the number of microblebs penetrating in PICE in the left heart. In the BD group PICE was made each 3 years of diving experience, in ED group - each3-5 years of further diving experience.
Results. Diving leads to activation of RLIAB, the number of divers with PER increases. Bypass and PER intensity grows in BD group. In ED group PER increased but RLIAB changed insignificantly.
Conclusion. Our investigation confirms unfavourable effects of diving on RLIAB of blood in persons with open oval window (OOW) enhancing PER. Further investigations should be made on effects of diving on hemodynamic disorders due to OOW.
Material and methods. Examination and observation covered 46 inexperienced divers (beginning divers - BD), 51 experienced divers (diving experience more than 3 years, ED) and 98 healthy individuals not interested in diving. The examinees were follow-up for 20 years. All of them had no organic cardiovascular pathology. PER was detected by the method of imitation modeling of underwater emboly using prolonged infusion contrast echocardiography (PICE) with hydrogen peroxide solution. The intensity of right-left interatrial bypass (RLIAB) was determined by the number of microblebs penetrating in PICE in the left heart. In the BD group PICE was made each 3 years of diving experience, in ED group - each3-5 years of further diving experience.
Results. Diving leads to activation of RLIAB, the number of divers with PER increases. Bypass and PER intensity grows in BD group. In ED group PER increased but RLIAB changed insignificantly.
Conclusion. Our investigation confirms unfavourable effects of diving on RLIAB of blood in persons with open oval window (OOW) enhancing PER. Further investigations should be made on effects of diving on hemodynamic disorders due to OOW.
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Evgeniy Fedorovich Onishchenko
Natal'ya Nikolaevna Berezina
E F Onischenko
Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, MoscowMedical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Moscow
N N Berezina
Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, MoscowMedical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Moscow
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