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Impact of Secondary Prevention on Mortality in the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program: Effectiveness of Occupational High-Risk Management. [PDF]

Am J Ind Med
ABSTRACT Background Since 1997 the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed) has offered medical exams to construction workers employed in US nuclear weapons facilities. The process consists of two steps: (1) a detailed work history interview; and (2) a medical exam.
Ringen K, Dement JM, Cloeren M, Almashat S, Grier W, Hines S, Welch LS, Cranford K, Haas S, Quinn P, Chen A, Fisher M.   +11 more
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Interesting Imaging in a Patient With Lung Cancer Due to Asbestosis

Case Reports in Clinical Practice, 2020
Introduction: Asbestosis is a subtype of pneumoconiosis caused by asbestos that can lead to fibrosis and scarring the lung tissues. Case Report: Some of the asbestos-related diseases are calcifications, malignant mesothelioma, and pleural effusion ...
Anahita Bolbol Haghighi, Sahar Karimpour Reihan   +1 more
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Radiologic Diagnosis of Asbestosis in Korea

, 2021
Asbestosis is the most important change noted in the lung parenchyma after environmental and occupational exposure to asbestos fibers. It is characterized by diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis.
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Factors Affecting Asbestosis Mortality Among Asbestos-Cement Workers in Italy [PDF]

, 2020
This study was performed with the aim of investigating the temporal patterns and determinants associated with mortality from asbestosis among 21 cohorts of Asbestos-Cement (AC) workers who were heavily exposed to asbestos ...
Merler, Enzo, Francesco Cuccaro, Perticaroli, Patrizia, Elisabetta Chellini, Tunesi, Sara, Pettinari, Aldo, Ferrante, Daniela, Miligi, Lucia, Lucia Mangone, Vicentini, Massimo, Enrico Oddone, Aldo Pettinari, Silvestri, Stefano, Menegozzo, Simona, Pavone, Venere Leda Mara, Mirabelli, Dario, Anna Maria Nannavecchia, Enzo Merler, Sala, Orietta, Ugo Fedeli, Lucia Bisceglia, Massimo Vicentini, Francesca Roncaglia, Oddone, Enrico, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Paolo Girardi, Orietta Sala, Girardi, Paolo, Patrizia Perticaroli, Roncaglia, Francesca, Alessia Angelini, Cena, Tiziana, Dario Mirabelli, Luberto, Ferdinando, Danila Azzolina, Ferdinando Luberto, Chellini, Elisabetta, Alessandro Marinaccio, Fedeli, Ugo, Tiziana Cena, Barone-Adesi, Francesco, Mangone, Lucia, Azzolina, Danila, Sara Tunesi, Venere Leda Mara Pavone, Daniela Ferrante, Bisceglia, Lucia, Magnani, Corrado, Simona Menegozzo, Stefano Silvestri, Nannavecchia, Anna Maria, the Working Group, Cuccaro, Francesco, Marinaccio, Alessandro, Angelini, Alessia, Lucia Miligi, Corrado Magnani, Roberta Pirastu, Pirastu, Roberta, Cuccaro F., Baldassarre, A., Tunesi S., Bressan V., Miligi, L., Mattioli S., Mangone L., Pasqualina Marinilli, Gangemi M., Marinaccio A., Francesco Marinelli, Gorini, G., Girardi, P., Merler E., Verdi, S., Baldassarre A., Girardi P., Magnani C., Marinelli F., Pavone V. L. M., Azzolina, D., Barone-Adesi F., Bisceglia L., Stefano Mattioli, Azzolina D., Ranucci A., Mirabelli, D., Legittimo P., Angelini A., Stura A., Silvestri, S., Cena T., Roncaglia F., Cinzia Storchi, Chellini E., Perticaroli P., Antonio Baldassarre, Vicentini M., Menegozzo S., Marinilli P., Manuela Gangemi, Verdi S., the Working Group: Laura Ancona, Vittoria Bressan, Fedeli U., Carol Brentisci, Scarnato C., Romeo E., Mirabelli D., Storchi C., Giuseppe Gorini, Antonella Stura, Pettinari A., Cortini, B., Patrizia Legittimo, Pirastu R., Corrado Scarnato, Stefania Curti, Sala O., Working Group, Ancona L., Barbara Cortini, Brentisci C., Chellini, E., Luberto F., Miligi L., Cortini B., Gorini G., Curti S., Silvestri S., Simona Verdi, Ferrante D., Alessandra Ranucci, Elisa Romeo, Pirastu, R., Oddone E., Nannavecchia A. M.   +135 more
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Safety and tolerability of pirfenidone in asbestosis: a prospective multicenter study

Respiratory Research, 2022
Background Pirfenidone slows down disease progression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Recent studies suggest a treatment effect in progressive pulmonary fibrosis other than IPF.
Jelle R. Miedema, Catharina C. Moor, Marcel Veltkamp, Sara Baart, Natascha S. L. Lie, Jan C. Grutters, Marlies S. Wijsenbeek, Rémy L. M. Mostard   +7 more
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Asbestosis hospitalizations in Poland (2006–2016): results from the National Hospital Discharge Registry

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2020
Introduction and objective Occupational asbestos exposure is one of the major public health issues. Although asbestos use in Poland has decreased, asbestosis continues to remain an important health concern in the area of occupational medicine. The aim of
Krzysztof Kanecki, Irena Kosińska, Piotr Zbigniew Tyszko, Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Paweł Goryński, Grzegorz Zieliński   +5 more
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Pleural Mesothelioma Diagnosed on Inguinal Lymph Node Biopsy: A Rare Entity [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Mesothelioma is a locally aggressive tumour arising from mesothelial lining of serous cavities, commonest site being the pleura. Distant metastasis to extra thoracic lymph node is rare.
Divya Singh, Rekha Bhandari, Surender Bana, Deepak Sundriyal, Arvind Kumar Gupta   +4 more
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Asbestosis and silicosis [PDF]

The Lancet, 1997
Interstitial fibrosis resulting from workplace exposure to asbestos and crystalline silica persists throughout the world despite knowledge of the causes and effective means for prevention. Asbestosis and silicosis occurrence is predictable among people overexposed to dusts in various industries and occupations such as mining, construction ...
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Primary Malignant Pericardial Epithelioid Mesothelioma Presenting as Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report With Multimodality Imaging and Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation. [PDF]

Case Rep Radiol
Primary malignant pericardial mesothelioma is an exceptionally rare and aggressive malignancy that frequently presents with nonspecific cardiopulmonary symptoms, recurrent pericardial effusion, constrictive physiology, or cardiac tamponade. Early diagnosis is challenging because an infiltrative pericardial tumor may remain occult on initial imaging ...
Dhakal S, Savoia P, Yasmine N, Mitra S.
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Asbestos related diseases among workers of asbestos processing plants in relation to type of production and asbestos use

Medycyna Pracy, 2015
Background: Asbestos dust is one of the most dangerous pneumoconiotic and carcinogenic agents. The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of asbestosis and pleural mesothelioma, depending on asbestos consumption and the type of manufactured ...
Neonila Szeszenia-Dąbrowska, Beata Świątkowska, Wojciech Sobala, Zuzanna Szubert, Urszula Wilczyńska   +4 more
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