This is very interesting. Spending time in a hyperbaric chamber is a major "pain".
A plus is that Trental has been around for a long time. The use of the drug may need to be discontinued just before and after a procedure ?

Please keep us updated on this.

This is sort of old but still interesting
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1707692

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