Pneumoconiosis: Treatment
There is no cure for pneumoconiosis. Early detection through regular monitoring of lung function and/or chest X-ray changes combined with efforts to limit exposures to dusts will help protect the lungs form further ...
Pneumoconiosis. Includes silicosis and asbestosis.
(1) (a) The mining, quarrying or working of silica rock or the working of dried quartzose sand or any dry deposit or dry residue of silica or any dry admixture containing such materials (including ...
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Coal workers pneumoconiosis - stage II
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Coal worker's pneumoconiosis is a lung disease that results from breathing in dust from coal, graphite, or man-made carbon over a long period of time.
Alternative Names
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Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) is caused by inhalation of coal dust. Deposition of dust produces dust-laden macrophages around bronchioles (coal macules), occasionally causing focal bronchiolar emphysema.
Coalworker's pneumoconiosis
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Antimony pneumoconiosis
(also called antimoniosis), a rare pneumoconiosis which has been described in workers with a long-standing exposure to antimony dust or fumes (during mining and ore smelting).
What is Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis?
Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis (CWP) is a disease of the lung resulting from the long-term inhalation of microscopic dust particles which was most commonly seen in coal worker's, hence the name.
Alternate Names : Rheumatoid pneumoconiosis
Definition
Caplan syndrome is swelling (inflammation) and scarring of the lungs in people with rheumatoid arthritis who have been exposed to mining dust, such as coal, silica, or asbestos.
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Pneumoconiosis Identification and Classification
The pneumoconioses are typically detected in living individuals through the use of radiological imaging.
pneumoconiosis - a lung disease caused by the long-term breathing (ingestion) of dust.
pneumonectomy - removal of an entire lung.
Pneumoconiosis is a lung condition that is caused by inhaling particles of mineral dust, usually while working in a high-risk, mineral-related industry.
Pneumoconiosis, Unspecified
Definition
Siderosis is a type of occupational lung disease (pneumoconiosis) caused by the inhalation of dust or fumes containing iron or iron oxide particles.
Pneumoconiosis - chronic disease of the lungs. Primarily an occupational disease of miners, sandblasters, and metal grinders, it is a result of repeated inhalation of dusts, including iron oxides silicates and carb...
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Pneumoconiosis in stonecutters due to the inhalation of stone dust. Called also flint disease. [Dorland].
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Rheumatoid pneumoconiosis
Definition of Caplan syndrome:
Caplan syndrome is swelling (inflammation) and scarring of the lungs in people with rheumatoid arthritis who have been exposed to mining dust, such as coal, silica, or asbestos.
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Coal workers' pneumoconiosis was the term British investigators used for the first time in 1942 to identify a type of dust disease observed in coal miners.
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About one of every 20 miners studied in the US has X-ray evidence of black lung disease, a form of pneumoconiosis.
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Black lung disease is a type of pneumoconiosis, a condition caused by inhaling certain forms of dust into the lungs.
What causes coal workers' pneumoconiosis?
The inhalation and accumulation of coal dust causes coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP).
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Black lung disease is the common name for coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) or anthracosis, a lung disease of older workers in the coal industry, caused by inhalation, over many years, of small amounts of coal dust.
Asbestosis is a form of pneumoconiosis ( an occupational and restrictive lung disease caused by inhaling of dust or other foreign objects that are used or produced in an occupation) ...
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Most interstitial lung diseases are diagnosed as pneumoconiosis, a drug-induced disease, or hypersensitivity pneumonitis. The other types are:
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Combination of: necrobiotic rheumatoid lung nodules, coal worker's pneumoconiosis Findings: round, peripheral nodules (0.5 - 5.0 cm), with or without cavitation, nodules associated with subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules ...
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Occupational lung diseases include asbestosis among asbestos miners and those who work with friable asbestos insulation, as well as black lung (coalworker's pneumoconiosis) among coal miners, ...
Perhaps the most well known diseases are: work-related asthma, asbestos-related diseases; vibration white finger; deafness caused by work noise; and pneumoconiosis, but there are many others.
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