Synopsis
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 Goiânia 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.
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