Nonrespiratory lung functions in children who have undergone the chronic effect of ionizing radiation as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station

Kolpakov, I.I.

Likars'ka Sprava 5: 23-26

1999


ISSN/ISBN: 1019-5297
PMID: 10822668
Document Number: 506913
With the purpose of assessing the condition of nonrespiratory functions of the lungs in those children having been under chronic exposure to ionizing irradiation as a result of the Chernobyl accident in the time-related course of the post-accident period, an examination was done of 964 children free from clinically manifest pathology of the respiratory organs aged 5 to 14 years, residing in the zones of radiation control. Noted in the above children over the post-accident period are changes in indices for non-respiratory functions of the lungs suggesting diminution of respiratory moisture oozing, disordered production of pulmonary surfactant, with intensity of free-radical processes being rather high.

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