SynthesisDiving and hyperbaric medicine2023
The risk of decompression illness in breath-hold divers: a systematic review.
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- Advances in breath-hold diving research: a state-of-the-art review.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Review
- A hypothesis-driven pulmonary-cerebral mechanistic framework of neurological decompression illness in repetitive breath-hold diving.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Review
- Use of in-water recompression for decompression illness after deep freediving: a case series.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2025Article
- Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapy in Athletes: A Cautious Compromise… If Possible!Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Review
- Recombinant human plasma gelsolin suppresses persistent neuroinflammation and restores hippocampal neurogenesis in murine model of decompression sickness.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Persistent neuroinflammation and functional deficits in a murine model of decompression sickness.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2024Article
- Evolutionary genetics of pulmonary anatomical adaptations in deep-diving cetaceans.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Decompression illness: a comprehensive overview.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2024Article
- Taravana syndrome and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: a microbubble hypothesis for neurological accidents in breath-hold divers.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionBreath-hold (BH) diving has known risks, for example drowning, pulmonary oedema of immersion and barotrauma. There is also the risk of decompression illness (DCI) from decompression sickness (DCS) and/or arterial gas embolism (AGE). The first report on DCS in repetitive freediving was published in 1958 and from then there have been multiple case reports and a few studies but no prior systematic review or meta-analysis.
methodsWe undertook a systematic literature review to identify articles available from PubMed and Google Scholar concerning breath-hold diving and DCI up to August 2021.
resultsThe present study identified 17 articles (14 case reports, three experimental studies) covering 44 incidences of DCI following BH diving.
conclusionsThis review found that the literature supports both DCS and AGE as potential mechanisms for DCI in BH divers; both should be considered a risk for this cohort of divers, just as for those breathing compressed gas while underwater.
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