[Hyperbaric oxygenation in the combined treatment of paroxysmal tachyarrhythmias in ischemic heart disease].

From experience in the use of the hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) in 31 patients and study of the ECG and central hemodynamic parameters by integral rheography the authors came to the conclusion that HBO reduces the number and duration of the paroxysms and that long-term remissions occur. HBO also reduces the number of extrasystoles, but the effect is of a short duration. During the paroxysms the HBO session promotes the change from the tachysystolic form of atrial fibrillation to the normosystolic form. A course of HBO therapy exerts a long-term normalizing effect on hemodynamics in myocardial hypodynamia.