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Three-year sustained remission with mepolizumab in a rare eosinophilic disease: idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia

European Clinical Respiratory Journal
Background Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (ICEP) is a rare eosinophilic lung disease with a high relapse rate and substantial oral corticosteroid (OCS) burden.
Hatice Serpil Akten, Sinem Inan, Zuleyha Galata, Su Ozgur, Yusuf Ozeke, Reyhan Gumusburun, Gulhan Demiroglu, Ozlem Goksel   +7 more
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Bronchial asthma and COPD due to irritants in the workplace - an evidence-based approach

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2012
Background Respiratory irritants represent a major cause of occupational obstructive airway diseases. We provide an overview of the evidence related to irritative agents causing occupational asthma or occupational COPD.
Baur Xaver, Bakehe Prudence, Vellguth Henning   +2 more
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Smoke-free legislation and hospitalizations for childhood asthma [PDF]

, 2010
<b>BACKGROUND:</b> Previous studies have shown that after the adoption of comprehensive smoke-free legislation, there is a reduction in respiratory symptoms among workers in bars.
Mackay, D., Haw, S., Pell, J.P., Pell, Jill, Daniel Mackay, Mackay, D, Fischbacher, C, Fischbacher, Colin, Pell, JP, Colin Fischbacher, Haw, S, Sally Haw, Fischbacher, C., Mackay, Daniel F, Ayres, Jon G, Haw, Sally, Jill P. Pell, Ayres, J.G., Ayres, Jonathan, Jon G. Ayres   +19 more
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Occupational allergic respiratory diseases - occupational asthma

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022
Introduction and objective: Occupational diseases, most often caused by allergens or irritants in the workplace, lead to a deterioration in the quality of life of employees and, in some cases, the inability to continue working in a specific position.It ...
Dominika Kopiec, Karolina Kuzioła
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Occupational asthma

The Lancet, 1997
Occupational asthma is a common disorder that may be caused by several hundred agents and has a variety of pathogenetic mechanisms. Level of exposure is an important risk factor, and reduction of exposure is the only certain method of prevention. Atopy and smoking are further risk factors for IgE-mediated asthma but have not been found to increase risk
Venables, K, Chan-Yeung, M
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Mechanisms of occupational asthma.

, 1999
BACKGROUND: The pathogenesis and the pathologic alterations of occupational asthma are similar to those of nonoccupational asthma. Occupational asthma may therefore represent a useful model of "human asthma" to investigate mechanisms and pathophysiology ...
FABBRI, Leonardo, P. Boschetto, MIOTTO, Deborah, DE ROSA, Edoardo, D. Miotto, MAPP, Cristina, E. De Rosa, FABBRI LM, BOSCHETTO, Piera, C. Mapp, Leonardo M. Fabbri, Piera Boschetto, Cristina Mapp, Deborah Miotto, Edoardo De Rosa   +14 more
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Distinct Clinical Phenotypes of Occupational Asthma due to Diisocyanates [PDF]

, 2017
Objective:To assess whether diisocyanate occupational asthma represents a unique phenotype.Methods:We studied 187 patients with diagnosis of asthma due to diisocyanates confirmed by a positive specific inhalation challenge.
Filippo Liviero, MD, PhD, Gabriella Guarnieri, Maria Cristina Scarpa, MD, Paola Mason, PhD, and Piero Maestrelli, Piero Maestrelli   +8 more
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Asthma caused by occupational exposures is common – A systematic analysis of estimates of the population-attributable fraction

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2009
Background The aim of this paper is to highlight emerging data on occupational attributable risk in asthma. Despite well documented outbreaks of disease and the recognition of numerous specific causal agents, occupational exposures previously had been ...
Blanc Paul D, Torén Kjell
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Occupational balance: What tips the scales for new students? [PDF]

, 2005
The open question, ‘What prevents you from reaching occupational balance?’, was posed within a questionnaire aimed at exploring the meanings of occupation, health and wellbeing with a cohort of first-year occupational therapy students during their ...
Wilcock, A, Ann Wilcock, Wilson, L, Lesley Wilson   +3 more
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Assessing and Treating Work-Related Asthma

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2008
Work-related asthma is asthma that is caused or exacerbated by exposures at work. It is the most common form of occupational lung disease in developed countries.
Stoughton Tracy, Prematta Michael, Craig Timothy   +2 more
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