Estrada PJG, Iglesias GM

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The survey of the oxidative stress can be able to result in the decline in the grades of cellular antioxidants, the increase of the speed in the production of the reactivate oxygen species, or as result of these two conditions. These morphologic and physiologic changes give rise to diverse disorders due to an excessive production in free radicals. Among these pathologies we discover: gastric, respiratory, cardiac, metabolic, and osseous ones. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a therapeutic modality based on the attainment of high oxygen partial pressures in the inside of a hyperbaric chamber, at pressure higher to the one in the atmosphere. To do this work, a review of several foreign and national articles was made with the aim of identifying the effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on the mechanisms of antioxidant defense and oxidative damage. The oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathogenesis of many diseases, and aging. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy constitutes an excellent tool against oxidative damage. The human organism has a series of mechanisms that restrict the production of reactivate oxygen species during and subsequent to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.