Decompression

Decompression external to the body, most often the slow lessening of external pressure on the whole body (especially in caisson workers, deep sea divers, and persons who ascend to great heights) to prevent DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS. It includes also sudden accidental decompression, but not surgical (local) decompression or decompression applied through body openings.

Networked: 11302 relevant articles (1011 outcomes, 922 trials/studies)

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Experts

1.	Zhong, Jun: 27 articles (06/2015 - 09/2008)
2.	Li, Shi-Ting: 25 articles (11/2015 - 11/2004)
3.	McGirt, Matthew J: 22 articles (10/2014 - 07/2005)
4.	Lee, Sang-Ho: 21 articles (03/2015 - 08/2004)
5.	Cohen-Gadol, Aaron A: 20 articles (04/2014 - 05/2003)
6.	Tubbs, R Shane: 20 articles (12/2013 - 02/2002)
7.	Zhu, Jin: 19 articles (03/2015 - 12/2010)
8.	Fehlings, Michael G: 18 articles (12/2015 - 12/2003)
9.	Vaccaro, Alexander R: 18 articles (11/2015 - 10/2003)
10.	Dellon, A Lee: 18 articles (05/2015 - 01/2002)

Related Diseases

1.	Pain (Aches) 12/01/2013 - "Patients undergoing decompression and extension of fusion for adjacent segment disease-associated back and leg pain reported long-term improvement in pain, disability, and both physical and mental quality of life, suggesting that revision surgery is a highly effective treatment strategy in this patient population." 03/01/2013 - "The surgical procedures with the highest rates of pain relief for GPN are rhizotomy and microvascular decompression (MVD) of cranial nerves IX and X. Neurovascular conflict at the level of the root exit zone of these cranial nerves is believed to be the cause of this pain syndrome in most cases. " 05/01/2000 - "All patients showed immediate relief of pain after surgery and the average duration of symptoms with conservative treatment could be dramatically reduced by core decompression from 6 months down to 2 months. " 01/01/1983 - "The different symptoms are unequally improved by the decompression: root pain is the best relieved (69 p. " 01/01/1978 - "The best results have been obtained in atypical sciatic pain when facet rhizolysis has been associated with root decompression. "
2.	Neoplasms (Cancer) 08/01/2013 - "After the surgery for removal of the tumor mass and spinal cord decompression, his motor power was dramatically improved to ambulate by himself. " 11/15/2011 - "Spot-scanning-based PT at PSI delivered subsequently to function-preserving surgery for tumor debulking, decompression of spinal cord, or biopsy only is safe and highly effective in patients with ECC without major surgical instrumentation even in view of large, unresectable disease." 07/01/1996 - "Modern diagnostic imaging techniques and new methods for anterior and posterior decompression and reconstruction of the bony spinal column have dramatically improved the surgeon's ability to treat malignant tumors of the adult bony spine. " 06/01/2014 - "Postoperatively, the patient's vision improved and imaging showed complete removal of the tumor and optic pathway decompression. " 07/01/2004 - "While complete surgical resection remains the only hope of cure in both these cancers, palliative biliary decompression and chemotherapy result in substantial improvement in quality of life. "
3.	Pathologic Constriction (Stenosis) 07/01/2009 - "Although spontaneous resolution of the pseudotumor after fixation of the unstable segment has been reported as the treatment of choice, decompression with occipitoaxial fusion was selected in the current case because the patient's neurological deficit was severe and progressive because of a remarkable canal stenosis at level C1/2." 08/01/2005 - "Bilateral and unilateral laminotomy allowed adequate and safe decompression of lumbar stenosis, resulted in a highly significant reduction of symptoms and disability, and improved health-related quality of life. " 04/01/2009 - "Presented here is a prospective study assessing the efficacy of decompression of concomitant noncontiguous level (thoracic & lumbar) stenosis in accordance with neurological findings, nerve root blocks, and myelographically proven disease. " 11/01/2003 - "Bowel decompression of the neoplastic stenosis relieved by self expandable metallic stents is useful to avoid emergency surgery and provide time for a complete preoperative staging, a metabolic correction and a mechanical bowel preparation. " 10/01/2014 - "Our study suggests that revision neural decompression and instrumented fusion for recurrent same-level stenosis provides significant improvement in all patient-assessed outcome metrics and should be offered as a viable treatment option."
4.	Trigeminal Neuralgia (Tic Douloureux) 09/01/2013 - "Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) surgical treatment with microvascular decompression is highly effective and safe, but for a percentage of patients who undergo this procedure, no vascular compression is found. " 03/01/2002 - "Trigeminal neuralgia is known to be caused by vascular compression at the trigeminal root entry zone (REZ) and microvascular decompression provides good outcome in most of cases. " 01/01/2015 - "Microvascular decompression of the TN is an effective treatment for trigeminal neuralgia, however in some cases, in which vascular compression is not evident when exploring the cerebellopontine angle, it is important to note that association of a prominent ST can hide a vascular compression of the nerve in this region." 01/01/2015 - "Despite the proven efficacy and safety of microvascular decompression (MVD) for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, some physicians are reluctant to perform the procedure in elderly patients because of potential complications. " 10/01/2014 - "The microvascular decompression procedure has proven to be a safe and effective option in the surgical management of neurovascular compression syndromes in general and trigeminal neuralgia in particular. "
5.	Spinal Stenosis (Stenosis, Spinal) 12/01/2007 - "For degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis unilateral approaches allowed sufficient and safe decompression of the neural structures and adequate preservation of vertebral stability, resulted in a highly significant reduction of symptoms and disability, and improved health-related quality of life." 01/01/1997 - "We found that in patients suffering degenerative spinal stenosis for up to 8 years, decompression without fusion showed the best results. " 03/01/1996 - "The first decompression operation for spinal stenosis has the best opportunity for a good outcome. " 01/01/2007 - "The following developments helped facilitate the evolution of a transforaminal endoscopic surgery procedure for disc herniations from a foraminal disc decompression, also known as percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy, to a more complete foraminal surgical technique that can address spinal stenosis and spinal instability. " 09/01/2015 - "The bilateral and unilateral interlaminar techniques for bilateral decompression both demonstrate good results for the treatment of degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS). "

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