Experimental and clinical justification for using plasma and its fractions in the treatment of radiation sickness

It is well known that ionizing radiation, in contradistinction to other aetiological factors, has an immediate injurious effect on all the tissues, organs and systems of an organism that fall within range of the radiation. The complex mechanisms of the different processes involved, which are still largely unclear, make it advisable in cases of radiation sickness to apply diverse forms of treatment aimed at particular pathogenic elements. It is generally recognized that in a comprehensive program for the treatment of radiation sickness a prominent place is occupied by haemotherapeutic agents