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Medical response to nuclear and radiation accidents
1Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
Occupational Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
The authors discuss the several strategies for treating bone marrow suppression caused by exposure to acute high-dose total body radiation. Supportive measures prevent death from infection and/or bleeding and thereby permit autologous bone marrow recovery. Another approach stimulates bone marrow recovery using molecularly cloned hematopoietic growth factors. A third approach replaces the damaged bone marrow via a transplant, either permanently or temporarily.