Silicosis
Definition
Silicosis is a progressive disease that belongs to a group of lung disorders called pneumoconioses. Silicosis is marked by the formation of lumps (nodules) and fibrous scar tissue in the lungs.
Silicosis - acute
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During normal respiration, air travels through the nose, down the trachea, and into smaller and smaller airways called bronchi.
Acute silicosis and the rarer accelerated silicosis are caused by intense silica dust exposure over short periods (several months or years).
What is silicosis?
Silicosis is a disabling, nonreversible and sometimes fatal lung disease caused by overexposure to respirable crystalline silica.
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Silicosis is a respiratory disease caused by breathing in (inhaling) silica dust.
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Review Date: 04/16/2009
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Silicosis is a lung disease caused by inhaling free crystalline silica, a dust found in the air of mines, foundries, blasting operations, and stone, clay, and glass manufacturing facilities.
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A form of chronic lung disease which develops after prolonged exposure to silica (quartz) dust.
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Silicosis ' This form of pneumoconiosis affects people who work with silica, usually in the form of quartz that is found in sand, sandstone, slate, some clays, granite and other ores.
Silicosis is a lung disease caused by breathing dust that contains extremely fine particles of crystalline silica. Crystalline silica is a common mineral found in materials such as sand, quartz, concrete, masonry, and rock.
Silicosis (an occupational lung disease)
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Age (infants, young children, and elderly people)
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Accelerated silicosis ... fatigue
Aceruloplasminemia ... chorea, torticollis, ataxia, tremors
Acetyl-coa acetyltransferase 2 deficiency ... reduced muscle tone
Achalasia -- addisonianism -- alacrima syndrome ... seizures ...
Workers who routinely inhale silica dust (silicosis), asbestos fibers (asbestosis) or hard metal dust are especially at risk of severe lung disease. So are people exposed to certain chemical fumes such as sulfuric acid, ammonia and chlorine gases.
Silicosis (See Interstitial Lung Disease)
Sinus tumors (See Nasal and Paranasal Tumors)
Skin cancer (See Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer)
Skin Cancer
Skull base chordoma (See Chordoma)
Sleep apnea (See Obstructive Sleep Apnea)
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Silicosis (classical)
Silicosis (acute)
Skin lesion of histoplasmosis
Solitary pulmonary nodule (benign)
Spontaneous pneumothorax
SVC obstruction
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
Tension pneumothorax ...
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cancer of the head or neck
leukemia or Hodgkin's disease
severe kidney disease
low body weight
certain medical treatments (such as corticosteroid treatment or organ transplants) ...
Safer workplaces: Work-related health problems, such as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung), and silicosis -- common at the beginning of the century -- have come under better control.
**Silicosis, diabetes, prolonged corticosteroid therapy or other immunosuppressive therapy, hematologic/reticuloendothelial disease, end stage renal disease, substantial weight loss (not TB-related) or undernutrition ...
The distribution of radiographic interstitial lung disease is often characteristic of the underlying disease in the upper lobe pulmonary fibrosis is observed in silicosis and in ankylosing spondylitis.
It is a common affliction of coal miners and others who work with coal, similar to both silicosis from inhaling silica dust, and to the long term effects of tobacco smoking.
avium complex (MAC) was described in 1943 in a man with underlying silicosis (a form of lung disease).
Health hazards can arise from any dust produced (which may be ameliorated through the use of a lubricant) which could lead to silicosis (when the abrasive or workpiece is a silicate) and the choice of any lubricant.
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Respiratory Bronchiolitis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease (RB-ILD)
Rheumatoid lung
Sarcoidosis
Scleroderma lung
Shortness of breath
Silicosis
Smoker’s bronchiolitis
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There is no specific treatment. Black lung disease has gone by many names, including anthracosis, black lung, black spittle, coal worker's pneumoconiosis, miner's asthma, and silicosis.
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