Title | Treatment of Radiation Injuries [electronic resource] / edited by Doris Browne, Joseph F. Weiss, Thomas J. MacVittie, Madhavan V. Pillai |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1990 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0864-3 |
Descript | X, 250 p. online resource |
Hematopoietic Injury Complications -- Medical Assessment and Therapy in Bone Marrow Failure Due to Radiation Accidents: Role of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Hematopoietic Growth Factors -- Use of rhGM-CSF in Bone Marrow Failure: Is There a Therapeutic Role for GM-CSF in Accidental Radiation Injuries? -- Blood and Bone Marrow Products in the Treatment of Radiation Injury -- Total-Body Irradiation in Bone Marrow Transplantation -- Rescue of Lethally Irradiated Animals: Therapeutic Use of rhG-CSF and rhGM-CSF in Preclinical Models of Radiation-Induced Marrow Aplasia -- Myeloprotective Effects of Interleukin-1 Following Exposure to Chemoradiotherapy -- Effects of Combined Application of IL-3 and G-CSF on Subhuman Primates -- Infectious Complications -- Infections in Radiation Accidents: An Overview -- Antibiotics in Postirradiation Infection -- Treatment of Infectious Complications of the Hematopoietic Syndrome -- Role of Immunotherapy in Preventing and Managing Postirradiation Infections -- Management of Fungal Infections Complicating Granulocytopenia: Implications for Patients With Radiation Injuries -- Prevention of Infection With Endogenous Organisms -- Role of Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Radiation Victims: RhGM-CSF Following the Goiรขnia Accident -- Combined Injury Complications -- The Status of Combined Injuries -- Combined Radiation and Thermal Injury After Nuclear Attack -- Complications of Combined Injury: Radiation Damage and Skin Wound Trauma in Mouse Models -- Wound Environment: Implications for Healing and Infection -- Future Directions and Consensus Summary Statement -- A Historical Perspective on the Therapy of Total-Body Radiation Injury -- Acute Effects of Radiation Exposure Following the Chernobyl Accident: Immediate Results of Radiation Sickness and Outcome of Treatment -- Potential Role for Human Colony-Stimulating Factors in the Treatment of Radiation Injuries -- Consensus Summary Statement on the Treatment of Radiation Injuries -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Consensus Panel Participants -- Appendix B: Conference Participants