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Hospital admissions and mortality due to complications of injection drug use in two hospitals in Regina, Canada: retrospective chart review [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Infectious complications of injection drug use (IDU) often require lengthy inpatient treatment. Our objective was to identify the number of admissions related to IDU in Regina, Canada, as well as describe patient demographics and comorbidities,
Polina Tsybina, Sandy Kassir, Megan Clark, Stuart Skinner   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A CASE OF TALCOSIS

Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi, 1972
44才,男子.昭和39年5月より凾館市内滑石工場にて滑石粉砕工として従事.軽度のせき,体動時の息切れを訴え精査のため来院した.胸部X線写真では両側全肺野に網目状陰影がみられ,右上中および左上肺野に融合した塊状陰影がみられ,その一部に透亮像が認められた.肺機能検査では残気量,残気率の増加,肺拡散能力の低下と低酸素血症がみられた.生検肺の病理組織学的所見は,中等度の線維症像および,針状結晶を呑食した多数の呑食細胞がみられた.生検肺を灰化しX線回析像をもとめると,滑石がほとんどで少量の石英が検出され,本症例は滑石と石英が撰択的に肺に沈着したと考えられた.滑石粉末には滑石のほか種々の結晶が混在するので,滑石肺の病態を理解するためには詳細な鉱物学的検索が必要であることを述べた.
HOMMA, Takeshi, TAKAHASHI, Shuichi, HASEGAWA, Shigeo, KAMADA, Tsuyoshi, SASA, Takashi, FUJIOKA, Yasunori, FUJITA, Masahiro   +6 more
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Talcosis of Unusually Rapid Development [PDF]

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1955
A diagnosis of talcosis, so far as we know, has not until now been made in Greece although this disease was first described by Thorel in 1896. This fact may have been due to the small number of talc workers in Greece, but since Thorel's description of talcosis as a definite clinical entity, pneumoconiosis due to talc has been the subject of ...
G P, ALIVISATOS, A E, PONTIKAKIS, B, TERZIS   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Bronchiolitis in a patient with talcosis. [PDF]

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1991
Despite environmental monitoring, widely used occupational standards, and an increasing knowledge of the causative agents of occupational respiratory diseases, new cases of pneumoconiosis still occur. Pulmonary disorders caused by inhalation of talc (magnesium silicate, Mg3SI4O10 (OH)2) have been described among workers in various industries. !
P Pääkkö, K Reijula
exaly   +3 more sources

Carcinogenicity of Poorly Soluble Low Toxicity Particles: Commentary on Epidemiology as a Risk Assessment “Reality Check” [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Inhaled particles that are poorly soluble or insoluble and of low toxicity (“poorly soluble low toxicity” or “PSLT” particles), can accumulate in the lung and at lung overload levels induce lung cancers in rats.
Kenneth A. Mundt, Annette B. Santamaria, William J. Thompson, Christopher A. Bates, Corey Boles, G. Scott Dotson, Mei Yong   +6 more
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Morbilidad respiratoria en trabajadores de la industria del talco

Iatreia, 1988
Con el fin de conocer su morbilidad respiratoria se estudiaron los 36 trabajadores de la Empresa de Talcos de Yarumal (Antioquia-Colombia); a cada trabajador se le realizaron historia clínica y ocupacional; examen físico; estudios radiológicos de tórax ...
Beatriz Tapias, Carlos J. Duran, Saúl Franco, Rodrigo Ramírez, Darío Isaza   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Successful lung transplantation for talcosis secondary to intravenous abuse of oral drug

International Journal of COPD, 2008
Dekel Shlomi1, David Shitrit1, Daniele Bendayan1, Gidon Sahar2, Yitshak Shechtman3, Mordechai R Kramer11Pulmonary Institute, Departments of 2Cardiothoracic Surgery and 3Pathology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqwa, and Sackler Faculty ...
Dekel Shlomi, David Shitrit, Daniele Bendayan, Gidon Sahar, Yitshak Shechtman, Mordechai R Kramer   +5 more
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Blowing balloons and pulmonary talcosis: An uncommon hazard [PDF]

Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2019
A 65-year-old nonsmoker man presented with bilateral upper lobe conglomerated calcific opacities with basal reticulations. The patient denied any significant occupational exposure. Repeated and persistent enquiry revealed an intense exposure to talc 20 years back, from blowing balloons stained with talc powder for a period of 1 year. To the best of our
Patro, Mahismita, Gothi, Dipti, Ojha, Umesh, Sah, Ram B., Vaidya, Sameer   +4 more
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Munchausen Syndrome Presenting as Pulmonary Talcosis

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 1999
Abstract We describe a patient with self-induced inhalational pulmonary talcosis originally diagnosed as asthma. A 35-year-old female respiratory technologist developed severe asthma that was refractory to steroids and methotrexate.
Henry Tazelaar, Jeffrey Myers, Myers Jeffrey L   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Cocaine-induced pulmonary changes: HRCT findings

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2015
Objective: To evaluate HRCT scans of the chest in 22 patients with cocaine-induced pulmonary disease.Methods: We included patients between 19 and 52 years of age.
Renata Rocha de Almeida, Gláucia Zanetti, Arthur Soares Souza Jr., Luciana Soares de Souza, Jorge Luiz Pereira e Silva, Dante Luiz Escuissato, Klaus Loureiro Irion, Alexandre Dias Mançano, Luiz Felipe Nobre, Bruno Hochhegger, Edson Marchiori   +10 more
doaj   +2 more sources