Occupational and environmental lung disease

Danielle M Seaman; Cristopher A Meyer; Jeffrey P Kanne

doi:10.1016/j.ccm.2015.02.008

Occupational and environmental lung disease

Clin Chest Med. 2015 Jun;36(2):249-68, viii-ix. doi: 10.1016/j.ccm.2015.02.008. Epub 2015 Apr 1.

Authors

Danielle M Seaman¹, Cristopher A Meyer², Jeffrey P Kanne²

Affiliations

¹ Duke University Medical Center, 1612 Bivins Street, Durham, NC 27707, USA. Electronic address: seaman.danielle@gmail.com.
² University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Avenue, MC 3252, Madison, WI 53792, USA.

PMID: 26024603
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2015.02.008

Abstract

Occupational and environmental lung disease remains a major cause of respiratory impairment worldwide. Despite regulations, increasing rates of coal worker's pneumoconiosis and progressive massive fibrosis are being reported in the United States. Dust exposures are occurring in new industries, for instance, silica in hydraulic fracking. Nonoccupational environmental lung disease contributes to major respiratory disease, asthma, and COPD. Knowledge of the imaging patterns of occupational and environmental lung disease is critical in diagnosing patients with occult exposures and managing patients with suspected or known exposures.

Keywords: Asbestos; Beryllium; Biomass; Coal; Hard metal; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Occupational asthma; Silica.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Environmental Exposure / adverse effects*
Environmental Illness / epidemiology*
Global Health
Humans
Lung Diseases / etiology*
Morbidity
Occupational Diseases / epidemiology*
Occupational Exposure / adverse effects*