Bone Marrow Transplantation and Other Treatment after Radiation Injury

A review prepared for the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General Research, Science and Education (Biology-Medical Research)
Erscheinungsjahr 1977
ISBN: 978-90-247-2056-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 83 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 167 g

Acute radiation injury in man has been amply reviewed in the past decades (1-8). Information for those reviews was mainly derived from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki experience (3), from radiation accidents as a con sequence of testing nuclear weapons and the application of nuclear energy (9-13) and from the intentional irradiation of patients, mostly for the treatment of malignancies and/or as conditioning for transplantation (14-20). Further, a large body of data derived from animal experimentation has led to cautious extrapolations to the human situation (14). An elaborate review dealing with early somatic effects of radiation in a man was published by UNSCEAR ) in 1962 (2). It was supplemented in 1969 with a similar document dealing mostly with radiation-induced chromosome aberra tions, the effects of radiation on the nervous system and, radio-active contamination of the environment by nuclear testing (21). In a more recent UNSCEAR report (1972) the main topics were genetic effects, carcinogenesis and effects of radiation on the immune response (22). The early effects of radiation in man were also expertly and comprehensively reviewed in a report by the United States National Research Council in 1967 (23).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balner, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Biological Effects of Radiation.- Physical Factors.- Biological Factors.- Schematic Classification of Radiation Injury.- Localized Effects.- Generalized Effects.- The Major Syndromes of Radiation Injury.- 10.007/978-94-010-1113-6_4.Therapy of the Bone Marrow Syndrome.- Experimental Data.- The Graft versus Host (GvH) Reaction.- Methods to prevent or mitigate GvH disease.- Clinical Data.- Starategy for the Treatment of Severe Radiation Injury in Man.- General Principles.- Initial Steps at the Various Medical Facilities.- Planning and Logistics of a Possible Bone Marrow Transplant.- “Marrow Banks”.- Acknowledgements.- References.