[Effect of hyperbaric oxygenation on pulmonary function, acid-base state and the blood gas composition in mitral heart defect patients].

Improvement of external respiration, acid-base balance and gas composition of blood was noted after application of a complex of therapeutic measures in combination with hyperbaric oxygenation. The fact that positive changes in external respiration were less pronounced in patients with stenosis of the left venous orifice than in those with mitral incompetence may evidently be explained by the presence of long-term and high pulmonary hypertension and certain increase in the volume of blood in pulmonary circulation in noncorrected stenosis of the left venous orifice. A decrease in metabolic acidosis is noted, which is a complication leading to deterioration of systemic and peripheral hemodynamics, inhibition and myocardial function and blood supply to the brain.