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Long-Term Efficacy of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients with Occupational Respiratory Diseases [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is a well-recognized treatment option in chronic obstructive lung disease improving exercise performance, respiratory symptoms and quality of life.
Jörres, Rudolf A. +5 more
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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 +4 more
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Pleural plaques and pleural changes among lung cancer patients exposed to asbestos
Universa Medicina, 2022 Background Indonesia is one of the world's largest asbestos importing countries. While asbestos is the main contributor to work-related lung cancer, studies or reports regarding the CT findings of asbestos-related lung cancer have been limited in the ...
Aziza Ghanie Icksan +3 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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The significance of nanoparticles in particle- induced pulmonary fibrosis
McGill Journal of Medicine, 2020 Exposure to airborne nanoparticles contributes to many chronic pulmonary diseases. Nanoparticles, classified as anthropogenic and natural particles, and fibers of diameters less than 100 nm, have unrestricted access to most areas of the lung due to their
James Byrne, John A Baugh
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Asbestos and Probable Microscopic Polyangiitis
Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2004 Several inorganic dust lung diseases (pneumoconioses) are associated with autoimmune diseases. Although autoimmune serological abnormalities are common in asbestosis, clinical autoimmune/collagen vascular diseases are not commonly reported.
George S Rashed Philteos +4 more
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Primary Malignant Mesothelioma of the Liver: Case Report and Review of the Literature
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020 Introduction: Primary malignant mesothelioma of the liver is an extremely rare cancer, with only 16 cases reported in the literature so far. Diagnosis is challenging due to morphological similarity with common liver cancers and the extreme rarity of the ...
Subash Ghimire +6 more
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Medicine Science, 2020 Asbestos is a mineral known as human carcinogenic material. Exposure to asbestos both in an occupational and environmental way causes asbestosis and mesothelioma.
Abdullah Sivrikaya +4 more
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Pleural mesothelioma in household members of asbestos-exposed workers in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVES: Malignant mesothelioma is closely associated to asbestos exposure. One such exposure may occur through contact with occupationally exposed household members and their belongings.
D'Agostin, Flavia +2 more
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Differential protein folding and chemical changes in lung tissues exposed to asbestos or particulates [PDF]
, 2015 Environmental and occupational inhalants may induce a large number of pulmonary diseases, with asbestos exposure being the most risky. The mechanisms are clearly related to chemical composition and physical and surface properties of materials.
Bedolla Diana, E +14 more
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