THE EFFICACY OF ARTIFICIAL GASEOUS BREATHING MIXTURES APPLIED TO THE TREATMENT OF OBLITERATIVE ATHEROSCLEROSIS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES

The present report is devoted to the estimation of the effectiveness of respiration of an artificial xenon-oxygen-helium gaseous mixture as a mode of treatment of 25 patients presenting with obliterative atherosclerosis of lower extremities. All the patients suffered the pathological process of different severity consistent with the IIa -IIIA stage disease. The study has shown that the respiration of the xenon-oxygen-helium gaseous mixture had positive effect on the changes in the peripheral blood vessels of the lower extremities. The most pronounced beneficial effects of the treatment included the disappearance of pain and numbness in the legs up to the improvement of intermittent claudication in certain patients. Simultaneously, the treatment resulted in the amelioration of the overall health status, normalization of sleep, and stabilization of blood pressure. It is concluded that aspiration of the artificial xenon-oxygen-helium gaseous mixture is an effective means for the prevention and treatment of obliterative atherosclerosis of lower extremities, especially at the initial stages of the disease.

obliterative atherosclerosis, gaseous breathing mixtures, helium, xenon, endogeneous ischemia, inhalation, treatment