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Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease.
Clin Chest Med. 2015 Jun;36(2):249-268
Authors: Seaman DM, Meyer CA, Kanne JP
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.
PMID: 26024603 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]