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 HEALTH EFFECTS OF THE CHORNOBYL ACCIDENT 
a Quarter of Century Aftermath | 
 
 
 
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 Andrii Serdiuk, Volodymyr Bebeshko, 
Dimitry Bazyka, Shunichi Yamashita | 
 
 Hardcover: 647pages 
ISBN 978-966-8311-78-9  | 
 
 
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|  Chapter 1. DOSES OF  EXPOSURE | 
 
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 1.1 Radiation doses  of clean-up workers of the accident. Retrospective dose reconstruction of clean-up  workers of the accident 
1.2 Dosimetry of  evacuees 
1.3 The calculation  of external exposure of people evacuated from villages of 30 km zone 
1.4 Population  irradiation doses | 
 
 
 
| Chapter 2. MEDICAL PROTECTION OF VICTIMS IN ACUTE PERIOD OF LIQUIDATION OF CHORNOBYL DISASTER CONSEQUENCES | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 3. REGISTRIES OF AFFECTED POPULATION | 
 
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 3.1 The state  registry of Ukraine of the persons affected by the Chornobyl catastrophe 
3.2 Special  Registries 
3.3 National Cancer  Registry of Ukraine | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 4. ACUTE  RADIATION SYNDROME | 
 
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 4.1 The main reasons  of patients post-accidental death 
4.2 Blood malignant  diseases and solid tumors 
4.3 Skin status  during follow- up in patients who had acute radiation skin lesions 
4.4 Changes of eye  lenses 
4.5 Changes of  hematopoiesis by peripheral blood count 85 
4.6 Somatic diseases  during long-term period after the irradiation 
4.7 Cardiovascular  system 
4.8 Endocrine system | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 5. LEUKEMIA | 
 
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 5.1 Epidemiology 
5.2 Molecular  biological features of acute leukemia in patients exposed to ionizing radiation  due to the Chornobyl accident 
5.3 Radiation and  myeloproliferative disease 
5.4 Myelodysplastic  syndrome 
5.5 Chronic  lymphocytic leukemia 
5.6 Stem cell: results  of clinical research 
5.7 Stem cells - functional  activity | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 6. SOLID  CANCERS | 
 
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 6.1 Thyroid cancer.  Epidemiology 
6.2 Thyroid cancer  in exposed as children and adolescents in Ukraine 
6.3 Breast cancer 
6.4 0ther solid  cancers 
6.5 Molecular mechanisms  of the malignant transformation in the urinary tract epithelium, influenced by  chronic long term low dose ionizing radiation exposure | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 7. CYTOGENETIC  EFFECTS | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 8. IMMUNOLOGICAL  EFFECTS | 
 
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 8.1 Frequency of immune  deficiencies in exposed population 
8.2 Immune function  in acute radiation syndrome survivors 
8.3 Late period  after irradiation 
8.4 Confounding  factors 
8.5 Immune function  after the middle and low dose radiation exposure 
8.6 Early period of  recovery after irradiation 
8.7 Modification of  immune function at low doses 
8.8 Effects in  doses which do not exceed the professional limits 
8.9 Effects in the  immune system at the remote period after irradiation 
8.10 Immune  function in patients with cerebrovascular diseases(CVD) exposed to ionizing  radiation as a result of the Chornobyl accident 
8.11 Apoptosis and  telomere length | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 9. THE  SIGNIFICANCE OF PERSISTANCE VIRAL INFECTIONS | 
 
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 9.1 HCV infection  in persons suffered due to the Chornobyl NPP accident 
9.2 CMV infection  in persons that suffered due to the Chornobyl NPP accident 
9.3 CLL cells  display homology of their Ig receptors with antiviral or antimicrobial antibodies | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 10. MEDICO-DEMOGRAPHIC  CHANGES AFTER CHORNOBYL CATASTROPHE | 
 
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 10.1 Basic radio-ecological  and social-demographic consequences of catastrophe | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 11. EPIDEMIOLOGY  OF NON-TUMOR DISEASES IN THE REMOTE POSTRADIATION PERIOD | 
 
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 11.1 Effects in the  Chornobyl clean-up workers of 1986-1987 
11.2 Epidemiological  studies of nontumor morbidity and mortality in adult evacuees: dynamics and  effects of low-dose ionizing radiation | 
 
 
 
| Chapter 12. CARDIOVASCULAR  DISEASES IN CHORNOBYL ACCIDENT CLEAN-UP WORKERS 25 YEARS UPON | 
 
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 12.1 Arterial  hypertension 
12.2 Features of  coronary heart disease after myocardial infarction in Chornobyl accident clean-up  WORKERs 
12.3 Features of  genesis of heart rhythm disorders, clinical presentation, structure-functional myocardial  abnormalities in Chornobyl accident within 25 years | 
 
 
 
| Chapter 13. THYRIOD  GLAND AND METABOLISM | 
 
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 13.1 lntegration of  impacts and damage levels 
13.2 Central  disorders of endocrine regulation 
13.3 Peripheral disorders  of endocrine regulation 
13.4 Peripheral  endocrine and metabolic disorders | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 14. ANTIOXIDANT  SYSTEM, OXIDATIVE MODIFICATION OF PROTEINS AND LIPIDS | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 15. BRONCHOPULMONARY  PATHOLOGY | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 16. MALE  REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH | 
 
 
 
| Chapter 17. NERVOUS  SYSTEM AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS | 
 
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 17.1 Acute  radiation syndrome: neuropsychiatric effects 
17.2 Early  neuropsychiatric manifestations 
17.3 Remote  neuropsychiatric effects 
17.4 Mental health  and neuropsychiatric effects in the clean-up workers | 
 
 
 
| Chapter 18. SENSORY  ORGANS | 
 
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 18.1 Eye: clinic, diagnostics,  regularities and risks for development of eye pathology in Chornobyl  catastrophe sufferers 
18.2 Sensor neural diminished  hearing in persons exposed as a result of the Chornobyl catastrophe, in the  dynamics of post-accidental period 
18.3. Vestibular  disfunction in the Chornobyl clean-up workers in the dynamics of post-accidental  period. Morbidity and risks for development of vestibular disfunction: results  of mathematical modeling | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 19. SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL  STATUS OF THE POPULATION LIVING ON RADIATION CONTAMINATED TERRITORIES IN THE REMOTE  PERIOD AFTER THE CHORNOBYL CATASTROPHE | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 20. RADIATION  RISKS PERCEPTION | 
 
 
 
| Chapter 21. MEDICAL  CONSEQUENCES OF THE CHORNOBYL ACCIDENT IN EXPOSED IN CHILDHOOD | 
 
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 21.1 Early and late  consequences in children evacuated from the 30-km zone and residents of radiation  contaminated areas 
21.2 Genetic and somatic  effects of intrauterine irradiation 
21.3 Prenatal  irradiation of the brain 
21.4 Children born  to radiation exposed parents 
21.5 Genetic  effects of children born to the clean-up workers of Chernobyl catastrophe 
21.6 Health status  in first-generation descendants of persons, exposed in childhood as a result of  the Chornobyl accident | 
 
 
 
| Chapter 22. THYROID  AND REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM IN CHILDREN EXPOSED TO IONIZING RADIATION AFTER THE CHORNOBYL  NPP ACCIDENT AND IN OFFSPRING OF EXPOSED PARENTS | 
 
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 22.1 Immediate  effects of the Chornobyl NPP accident 
22.2 Thyroid in  children evacuated and living in contaminated territories 
22.3 Somatosexual  development in pediatric survivors of the Chornobyl NPP accident 
22.4 The thyroid  and the sexual maturation in children born from persons being children  themselves at the time of ChornobyI NPP accident | 
 
 
 
| Chapter 23. GENETIC  MONITORING OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS AND THE INHERITED PATHOLOGY | 
 
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 23.1 The birth  defects frequency analysis in regions of Ukraine | 
 
 
 
|  Chapter 24. PECULIARITIES  OF THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH AND LOW DOSES OF IONIZING RADIATION ON TOOTH HARD TISSUES | 
 
 
 
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