Medical response to nuclear and radiation accidents
Gale, R.P.; Butturini, A.
Occupational Medicine 6(4): 581-596
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0885-114X PMID: 1962247 Document Number: 379914
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.