| Literature DB >> 12080361 |
S Chiba1, A Saito, S Ogawa, K Takeuchi, K Kumano, S Seo, T Suzuki, Y Tanaka, T Saito, K Izutsu, K Yuji, S Masuda, S Futami, M Nishida, G Suzuki, R P Gale, M Fukayama, K Maekawa, H Hirai.
Abstract
Accidental exposure to acute high-dose total body neutron radiation is rare. We report a 35-year-old man exposed to a total body dose of 5.4 Gy neutron- and 8.5-13 Gy gamma-radiation in a radiation criticality accident. He received a blood stem cell transplant from his HLA-identical sister. There was bone marrow recovery with complete donor chimerism. Random chromatid breaks were observed in donor cells suggesting a bystander effect of neutron exposure. The subject died 82 days after the accident (75 days post transplant) from multi-organ failure.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12080361 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1703568
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bone Marrow Transplant ISSN: 0268-3369 Impact factor: 5.483