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Wendell, 
can you you give a hint, please, where ( if) this can be found in the
web ?
Feels funny to be adressed as elderly diver ;-)

regards
Matthias


Wendell Grogan schrieb:
> 
> Good news for those of us who never believed that the studies that
> suggested brain damage in divers were correct:
> 
> 1: Acta Radiol 2000 Jan;41(1):18-21
> 
> Does diving damage the brain? MR control study of divers' central
> nervous
> system.
> 
> Hutzelmann A, Tetzlaff K, Reuter M, Muller-Hulsbeck S, Heller M.
> 
> Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Christian-Albrechts-University,
> Kiel,
> Germany.
> 
> PURPOSE: To evaluate the prevalence of cerebral white matter changes on
> MR
> imaging in healthy elderly compressed air divers with a long diving
> history in
> comparison with control subjects who have never dived. MATERIAL AND
> METHODS: The
> investigation employed 59 experienced elderly divers and 48 control
> subjects
> matched for age, body mass index, alcohol and smoking history. MR
> studies
> included a fluid attenuated inversion recovery sequence and T1- and
> T2-weighted
> pre- and postcontrast images in axial orientation of the whole brain to
> localize
> white matter changes. RESULTS: MR images did not show any morphologic
> abnormalities in the brains of divers. Both groups - divers and controls
> - did
> not differ significantly with respect to white matter changes of the
> brain.
> CONCLUSION: No increased prevalence of cerebral white matter changes in
> compressed air divers compared with a healthy worker sample of similar
> age were
> found. Thus, extensive compressed air diving may not necessarily be
> related to
> radiological changes on MR.
> 
> PMID: 10665864 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
> 
> Wendell Grogan
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