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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022. Vol. 67. № 6
DOI: 10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-5-11
I.V. Kobzeva1, T.A. Astrelina1, V.A. Brunchukov1, V.A. Brumberg1, A.A. Rastorgueva1,
Yu.B. Suchkova1, D.Yu. Usupzhanova1, T.F. Malivanova1, V.A. Nikitina1, S.V. Lishchuk1,
E.A. Dubova1, K.A. Pavlov1, Ya.V. Tonkal1, O.F. Serova1,2, A.S. Samoilov1
Transplantation of Human Decellularized Amniotic Membrane in Local Radiation Injuries
1A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia
2Moscow Regional Perinatal Center, Balashikha, Russia
Contact person: T.A. Astrelina, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Purpose: Evaluation of the effectiveness of the use of human decellularized amniotic membrane, both as an independent covering material and as a cell-free matrix for syngeneic regenerative cells of adipose tissue (stromal-vascular fraction – SVF, adipose tissue ‒ AT) in local radiation injuries (LRI) IIIb-IV severity in laboratory animals.
Material and methods: 42 laboratory animals were studied. LRI modeling was carried out on an X-ray at a dose of 110 Gy. Animals were randomized randomly and divided into 6 groups depending on the type of treatment:
1st group (K) ‒ control group animals after irradiation did not receive specific treatment; the 2nd group (Gl) ‒ after irradiation, medical glue BF-6 was applied to the ulcer surface on the 21st day; 3rd group (Am) ‒ animals after irradiation on the ulcer surface was applied decellularized amniotic membrane, fixed with interrupted sutures on the 21st day; 4th group (Am-Gl) ‒ animals after irradiation on the ulcer surface was applied decellularized amniotic membrane, fixed with medical adhesive BF-6 for 21 days; 5th group (SVF-Gl) ‒ after irradiation, the SVF AT at a dose of 0.4×106 cells was applied to the ulcer surface after irradiation, followed by fixation with BF-6 medical glue for
21 days; the 6th group (Am-SVF) ‒ after irradiation, SVF AT was applied to the ulcer surface at a dose of 0.4×106 cells under the decellularized amniotic membrane, fixed with interrupted sutures on the 21st day.
Results: On the 112th day, complete healing of the ulcer was observed in 100 % of animals in the Am-Gl group, in 70 % in the Am and Gl groups. There was no complete healing of the ulcer in the SVF-CGl and Am-SVF groups. The greatest reduction in the area of the total altered skin from 21 to 112 days of the experiment was noted in the groups Gl-SVF (34.7 %), K (31.6 %), Am-SVF (30.7 %). In the Am-Gl and Am groups, a reduction in the area of the total altered skin was recorded by 24.6 % and 14.7 %, respectively. In the GL group, the reduction in the area of the total altered skin was the smallest, by only 13.5 %.
Conclusion: The use of a decellularized human amniotic membrane fixed with medical adhesive BF-6 can be considered as a promising method for the conservative treatment of LRI of the skin.
Keywords: local radiation injury, transplantation, decellularized human amniotic membrane, efficacy, rat
For citation: Kobzeva IV, Astrelina TA, Brunchukov VA, Brumberg VA, Rastorgueva AA, Suchkova YuB, Usupzhanova DYu, Malivanova TF, Nikitina VA, Lishchuk SV, Dubova EA, Pavlov KA, Tonkal YaV, Serova OF, Samoilov AS. Transplantation of Human Decellularized Amniotic Membrane in Local Radiation Injuries. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022;67(6):5–11. (In Russian). DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-5-11
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Поступила: 20.07.2022. Принята к публикации: 25.09.2022.
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022. Vol. 67. № 6
DOI: 10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-12-18
A.A. Kosenkov, F.S. Torubarov, M.Yu. Kalinina, S.A. Afonin
Some Organizational and Methodological Aspects of Psycho-Physiological Support
of Functional Reliability of Russian Nuclear Workers
A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia
Contact person: A.A. Kosenkov, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Purpose: To improve organizational and methodological approaches to psycho-physiological support of functional reliability of Russian nuclear workers.
Results: The authors’ position on a number of topical organizational and methodological issues of psycho-physiological support of functional reliability of nuclear workers is presented.
Measures aimed at optimizing the interaction of medical organizations of the FMBA of Russia and organizations of the Rosatom State Corporation in the preparation and conduct of psychophysiological examinations are proposed. The optimal solution to this problem, according to the authors, is the development of a joint regulatory document defining the rights and obligations of both parties by the FMBA of Russia and the State Corporation. The expediency of avoiding duplication in carrying out a number of diagnostic techniques after developing a mechanism for transferring test results from medical organizations of the FMBA of Russia to organizations of the Rosatom State Corporation is shown.
According to the authors, the following issues are to be improved: a) the existing diagnostic arsenal, taking into account new technological capabilities, and having in mind the fact that some important tests are easily available on the Internet; b) the content of methodological recommendations, which should describe in detail sensorimotor and other tests, allowing for a variety of their interpretations, to ensure the invariance of their computer implementations. Such measures will increase the diagnostic value of the tests used, as well as the comparability of the results obtained using various software and hardware complexes.
Authors also propose to reconsider the role of the Scientific and Technical Council of the State Corporation in improving the functional reliability of the personnel of the industry by integrating psycho-physiological and other areas related to human resources into the general research topics. Proposed actions:
a) to create a thematic scientific and technical council on human resource management and reduction of anthropogenic risks including specialists in psycho-physiological, psychological, medical, sanitary-hygienic, ergonomic and other aspects of ensuring the functional reliability of personnel, and to elect a scientific adviser of the council;
b) to include the development plan for the direction of ensuring the functional reliability of personnel in the new edition of the “Program of Innovative Development and Technological Upgrading of the Rosatom State Corporation for the Period up to 2030”;
c) to add the direction on improving the reliability of the human factor in the Unified Industry Thematic Plan of Research and Development Work of the Rosatom State Corporation;
d) to include the most important reports related to human resource management and reduction of anthropogenic risks in the plenary sessions of the conferences “Radiation Protection and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Technologies”.
Conclusion: The above proposals are aimed at improving the organizational and methodological aspects of the psycho-physiological direction in ensuring the functional reliability of nuclear workers. According to the authors, this direction should be part of the human resource management system and the reduction of anthropogenic risks in the nuclear industry. The research part of this system should be integrated into the activities of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Rosatom State Corporation and meet the requirements of a systematic approach.
Keywords: nuclear industry, safety, functional reliability, nuclear workers, professionally important qualities, anthropogenic risks, regulatory documents, psychophysiological laboratory
For citation: Kosenkov AA, Torubarov FS, Kalinina MYu, Afonin SA. Some Organizational and Methodological Aspects of Psycho-Physiological Support of Functional Reliability of Russian Nuclear Workers. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022;67(6):12–18. (In Russian). DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-12-18
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Article received: 20.07.2022. Accepted for publication: 25.09.2022.
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022. Vol. 67. № 6
DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-24-29
A.A. Molokanov, N.P. Potsyapun, E.Yu. Maksimova
Application of New Icrp Recommendations on Dose Calculation
for Workers after Inhalation Intake of Uranium Radionuclides
A.I. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia
Contact person: Andrey Alekseevich Molokanov, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Purpose: Harmonization and improvement of the system for regulating the internal radiation exposure of workers and the basic requirements for ensuring radiation safety, taking into account the application of new international requirements and recommendations.
Material and methods: A brief description of the procedure for calculating absorbed and equivalent doses in organs and tissues after the intake of radionuclides into the human body is presented, using the biokinetic and dosimetric models adopted in the new ICRP recommendations, as well as a discussion of the impact of these changes on the results of calculating dose coefficients for the case of inhalation intake of uranium-235 radionuclide.
Results: The effective dose values and equivalent doses to organs and tissues for workers were calculated depending on the time after a single inhalation intake of uranium-235 aerosol, according to new models [1–12] and according to previous ICRP models [15, 16]. The calculation of the effective dose according to the new models included calculations of equivalent doses for 14 main organs and tissues and 13 organs and tissues classified as “remainder tissues” as described in ICRP Publication 103 [3]. The committed effective dose was then calculated according to the new approach using the average of the equivalent doses for the reference adult male, HTM, and the reference adult female, HTF, as well as the tissue and organ weighting factors, WT, adopted in ICRP Publication 103. The values of the effective dose and equivalent doses on the red bone marrow, lungs and remainder tissues vs time in the range from several days to 18250 days (50 years) after a single inhalation intake of an aerosol of uranium-235 for standard value AMAD=5 µm and types of compounds F, M, S, F/M and M/S are presented according to new and previous ICRP models.
It is shown that the value of the dose coefficient for type F, calculated by new models, is 2.6 times (2.3E-07÷6.0E-07) less than that calculated by previous ICRP models, and the value of the dose coefficient for type F/M calculated by new models is 1.6 times (3.8E-07÷6.0E-07) less than the value of the dose coefficient for type F calculated by previous ICRP models. For uranium trioxide UO3, taking into account its transition from compound type M to F/M, the value of the dose coefficient for committed effective dose according to the updated model of the respiratory tract is 4.7 times (3.8E-07÷1.8E-06) less than the corresponding value for the previous model of the type M respiratory tract. The committed effective dose value for compound type M, calculated using the new models, is 1.4 times (1.3E-06÷1.8E-06) less than the same value calculated using the previous ICRP models. The value of the committed effective dose for type M/S compounds (which, according to the new model of the respiratory tract, include uranium oxide U3O8 and dioxide UO2), calculated according to new models, is 1.2 times (5.1E-06÷6.1E-06) less than the value calculated from previous ICRP models for type S compounds (which included U3O8 and UO2 in the previous respiratory tract model).
Conclusion: From the above data it follows that in case of the adoption of national radiation safety standards to new ICRP models, differences in the values of dose coefficients will result in a change of annual limits of intake (ALI) in the corresponding proportion for the types of uranium aerosol compounds noted above.
Keywords: uranium, inhalation intake, dose coefficient, internal exposure, biokinetic model, dosimetric model, absorbed dose, equivalent dose, organs and tissues, committed effective dose, new ICRP recommendations
For citation: Molokanov AA, Potsyapun NP, Maksimova EYu. Application of New Icrp Recommendations on Dose Calculation for Workers after Inhalation Intake of Uranium Radionuclides. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022;67(6):24–29. (In Russian). DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-24-29
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Article received: 20.07.2022. Accepted for publication: 25.09.2022.
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022. Vol. 67. № 6
DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-19-23
A.Yu. Bushmanov, O.A. Kasymova, A.S. Kretov, M.A. Soloreva, E.A. Denisova
Results of Psychophysiological Examinations of Personnel of Nuclear Facilities
A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia
Contact person: A.S. Kretov, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
The relationship between the employee’s level of health and his professional reliability is currently obvious and does not require additional evidence. The implementation of measures aimed at reducing the risks of emergency situations caused by the human factor at nuclear energy facilities is an important element of the radiation protection system.
In order to achieve the above-mentioned goals of the organization, in accordance with Federal Law № 170-FZ of 21.11.1995, the performance of certain types of work in the field of atomic energy use requires special permits from Rostechnadzor. A prerequisite for obtaining such a permit for a specialist is the absence of psychophysiological contraindications based on the results of a psychophysiological examination.
This study analyzes the results of psychophysiological examinations of employees of nuclear energy facilities conducted by specialists of the State Research Center – A.I. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency in 2020 and 2021.
Keywords: nuclear industry, workers, psychophysiological examinations, psychophysiological contraindications, radiation safety
For citation: Bushmanov AYu, Kasymova OA, Kretov AS, Soloreva MA, Denisova EA. Results of Psychophysiological Examinations of Personnel of Nuclear Facilities. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022;67(6):19–23. (In Russian). DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-19-23
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Contribution. Article was prepared with equal participation of the authors.
Article received: 20.07.2022. Accepted for publication: 25.09.2022.
Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022. Vol. 67. № 6
DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-30-35
N.A. Metlyaeva, A.Yu. Bushmanov, I.A. Galstyan, O.V. Shcherbatykh, M.V. Konchalovsky, F.S. Torubarov
Clinical Observation of a Severe Chronic Radiation Sickness Due to External Relatively Uniform Gamma Exposure and Inhalation Intake of Aerosols of Plutonium-239 and its Long-Term Consequences in a Former Worker
A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia
Contact person: N.A. Metlyaeva, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Purpose: To describe the clinical observation of chronic radiation sickness (CRS) of severe course, caused by relatively uniform external gamma exposure and inhalation intake of plutonium-239 aerosols, and its long-term consequences.
Material and methods: A clinical description of the observation of CRS, which developed from the combined effect of external gamma radiation and inhalation of plutonium-239 aerosols, was given in a former employee of the Mayak Production Association, who was treated for 45 years in a specialized clinic of the Institute of Biophysics of the Ministry.
Conclusion: The clinical picture of CRS in the patient was determined by manifestations of plutonium pneumosclerosis II degree, emphysema, respiratory failure II degree, liver cirrhosis in the active phase, organic changes in the brain in the form of stem vestibular manifestations, osteoalgic syndrome. Significant amounts of plutonium-239 were noted. She was an invalid of group II due to the underlying disease. The disease progressed with damage to the main critical organs (lungs, liver). In the period of long-term consequences, the patient developed peripheral cancer of the lower lobe of the right lung (poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma).
Keywords: chronic radiation sickness, plutonium pneumosclerosis, carriage of plutonium-239, external gamma exposure, peripheral lung cancer
For citation: Metlyaeva NA, Bushmanov AYu, Galstyan IA, Shcherbatykh OV, Konchalovsky MV, Torubarov FS. Clinical Observation of a Severe Chronic Radiation Sickness Due to External Relatively Uniform Gamma Exposure and Inhalation Intake of Aerosols of Plutonium-239 and its Long-Term Consequences in a Former Worker. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2022;67(6):30–35. (In Russian). DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2022-67-6-30-35
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Contribution. Article was prepared with equal participation of the authors.
Article received: 20.07.2022. Accepted for publication: 25.09.2022.