@article{ref1,
title="Does diving damage the brain? MR control study of divers' central nervous system",
journal="Acta radiologica (1987)",
year="2000",
author="Hutzelmann, A. and Tetzlaff, K. and Reuter, M. and Müller-Hülsbeck, S. and Heller, M.",
volume="41",
number="1",
pages="18-21",
abstract="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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0284-1851",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}