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One-year lung transplantation outcomes for engineered stone countertop workers with silicosis at a single center in Southern California, 2019 to 2023

JHLT Open
Background: In the past decade, growing industrial exposure to respirable crystalline silica from manufacturing engineered stone (ES) products has caused rapidly progressive, irreversible silicosis worldwide.
Reice Robinson, MD, Jeremy T. Hua, MD, MPH, Bryanna Lee, Karen Villegas, Samvel Gaboyan, Cecile S. Rose, MD, MPH, Christine M. Lin, MD, Eugene Golts, MD, Gordon Yung, MD, Tara Akins, NP-BC, Catherine Gaissert, PA-C, Christina Malles, PA-C, Ana Maria Gloria, NP-C, Kamyar Afshar, DO   +13 more
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The role of inflammation in silicosis

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Silicosis is a chronic illness marked by diffuse fibrosis in lung tissue resulting from continuous exposure to SiO2-rich dust in the workplace. The onset and progression of silicosis is a complicated and poorly understood pathological process involving ...
Tong-Tong Liu, Hai-Fei Sun, Yan-Xing Han, Yun Zhan, Jian-Dong Jiang   +4 more
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GAMG ameliorates silica-induced pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis via the regulation of EMT and NLRP3/TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Silicosis is an occupational disease caused by exposure to silica characterized by pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis, for which there is a lack of effective drugs.
Jing Zhang, Jiazhen Zhang, Zongze Yao, Wei Shao, Yuanchao Song, Wenjian Tang, Bo Li   +6 more
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PECULIARITIES OF SILICOTUBERCULOSIS IN THE WORKERS OF FERROUS METALLURGY ENTERPRISES

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2012
The results of long-term dispensary supervision (14 years) of 284 silicosis patients (including 54 silicotuberculosis patients) worked at Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant have shown that high concentration of dust in air with 5% content of free silicon ...
V. V. Zakharenkov, O. A. Morozova, I. V. Viblaya   +2 more
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Finger-in-Glove Sign in Congenital Bronchial Atresia

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2015
Miguel Ariza-Prota, José Luis Diez Jarilla, Amador Prieto, Ana Pando-Sandoval, Pere Casan   +4 more
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Delayed Silicotuberculosis Diagnosis in a Young Worker: The Importance of Dust Control and Occupational Surveillance. [PDF]

Case Rep Pulmonol
Thendeyas RT, Maranatha D, Atika N.
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Bicyclol: A Useful Agent for Silicosis? [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci
Zhang T, Liu TT, Wang XJ, Du HC, Han YX, Zhan Y, Jiang JD.   +6 more
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Silicosis from dry-cutting engineered stone in the fabrication of countertops. [PDF]

CMAJ
Yuen M, Ho K, Abdelsayad A, Lau A, Tarlo SM.   +4 more
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Adjusting for the diagnostic accuracy of CXR in the dose-response relationship between cumulative silica exposure and silicosis in miners. [PDF]

Occup Environ Med
Howlett P, Durairaj A, Gan J, Lesosky M, Feary J.   +4 more
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Prevalence of chronic respiratory disease symptoms and associated occupational risk factors among certified silicosis patients of Rajasthan. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Yadav S, Ahir P, Bhati DS.
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