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| Pneumoconiosis | |
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| Classification and external resources | |
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| ICD-10 | J60.-J65. |
| ICD-9 | 500-505 |
| DiseasesDB | 31746 |
| MeSH | D011009 |
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease and a restrictive lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust, often in mines.
Contents
Types
Depending upon the type of dust, the disease is given different names:
- Anthracosis - carbon
- Coalworker's pneumoconiosis (also known as "black lung") - coal
- Asbestosis - asbestos
- Silicosis (also known as "grinder's disease") - silica
- Bauxite fibrosis - bauxite
- Berylliosis - beryllium
- Siderosis - iron
- Byssinosis - cotton
- Silicosiderosis - mixed dust containing silica and iron
- Labrador Lung (found in miners in Labrador, Canada) - mixed dust containing iron, silica and anthophyllite, a type of asbestos
In addition, it has been speculated that astronauts subject to prolonged exposure to lunar dust may be susceptible to a type of pneumoconiosis. No cases exist yet, but future Moon missions are expected to take precautions against such exposure.
Diagnosis
Positive indications on patient assessment:
- Shortness of breath
- Chest X-ray may show a characteristic patchy, subpleural, bibasilar interstitial infiltrates or small cystic radiolucencies called honeycombing
Pneumoconiosis in combination with multiple pulmonary rheumatoid nodules in rheumatoid arthritis patients is known as Caplan's syndrome.[1]
- Popcorn workers lung disease - Diacetyl emissions and airborne dust from butter flavorings used in microwave popcorn production
See also
- Coalworker's pneumoconiosis
- Black Lung Benefits Act of 1973
- Chalicosis
- Philip D'Arcy Hart
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
References
- ↑ Andreoli, Thomas, ed. CECIL Essentials of Medicine. Saunders: Pennsylvania, 2004. p. 737.
External links
- NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Pneumoconioses
- Black Lung Benefits Act - U.S. Department of Labor
- Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis - The Merck Manuals: Online Medical Library
- Black Lung - United Mine Workers of America
- Black Lung - U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration
- A Conversation about Mining and Black Lung Disease
- Flavorings-Related Lung Disease
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