GEMATOLOGIYA I TRANSFUZIOLOGIYA

The journal publishes original theoretical and clinical investigations, reviews and clinical notes concerning different problems of hematology and blood transfusion. It publishes many articles, dealing with the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture and treatment of diseases of the blood system and hemopoiesis including nonhematological ailments (internal diseases, intoxication, effects of ionizing radiation, etc.). It acquaints the readers with modern achievements of immunohematology, preservation and transplantation of the bone marrow. The journal discusses the problems of the donor's service, organization of blood banks and departments of blood transfusion, obtaining of blood plasma, components, preparations and substitutes of blood and their employment in different diseases. It popularizes the advanced experience of institutions and individual workers of the blood transfusion and hematological service. Materials on current events, book reviews and symposia on hematology and blood transfusion are printed in the journal. In 1990 a new section "School of hematologists" founded; more that 30 original lectures on immunocytology,latest programs of treatment and diagnosis of blood systems' diseases have been in this section since. Since 1991 a permanent section "Chernobul" in the journal, that publishes materials of authors from Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia on hemopoisis' investigations in liquidators of the Chernobyl catastrophe and population settled on the territories polluted by radionuclids. In 1998 a section "Hemopoiesis and immunity diseases" was found. It presents genetically determinized defects of immune system, that are in the base of certain hematological ailments. Original lectures of the leading hematologists, presented at the annual Ten-Day Symposia after I.A. Kassirsky are published. The journal is intended for hematologists, laboratory technicians, therapeutists, surgeons, pediatricians, anesthesiologists, reanimatologists, as well as for physiologists, pathophysiologists, pathologists and other representatives of theoretical disciplines, and all physicians interested in the problems of blood transfusion and pathology of the circulatory system.