All Topics  
Pneumoconiosis

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Pneumoconiosis
 
 
  Topics Pneumoconiosis Topic Home

Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease
Occupational lung disease

Main Article COPDOccupational lung diseases are a branch of occupational diseases concerned primarily with work related exposures to harmful substances, be they dusts or gases, and the subsequent pulmonary disorders that may occur as a result....
 caused by the inhalation
Inhalation

Inhalation is the movement of air from the external environment, through the air ways, and into the alveoli.Inhalation begins with the onset of contraction of the diaphragm , which results in expansion of the intrapleural space and an increase in negative pressure according to Boyle's Law....
 of dust.








Discussion
Ask a question about 'Pneumoconiosis'
Start a new discussion about 'Pneumoconiosis'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease
Occupational lung disease

Main Article COPDOccupational lung diseases are a branch of occupational diseases concerned primarily with work related exposures to harmful substances, be they dusts or gases, and the subsequent pulmonary disorders that may occur as a result....
 caused by the inhalation
Inhalation

Inhalation is the movement of air from the external environment, through the air ways, and into the alveoli.Inhalation begins with the onset of contraction of the diaphragm , which results in expansion of the intrapleural space and an increase in negative pressure according to Boyle's Law....
 of dust.

Types

Depending on the type of dust, variants of the disease are considered.

Types include:
  • Coalworker's pneumoconiosis
    Coalworker's pneumoconiosis

    Black lung disease, also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis , is caused by long exposure to coal. It is a common affliction of coal miners and others who work with coal, similar to both silicosis from inhaling silica dust, and to the long-term effects of tobacco smoking....
      (also known as "black lung") - coal
    Coal

    Coal is a readily combustion black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure....
     dust
  • Asbestosis
    Asbestosis

    Asbestosis is a chronic Inflammation medical condition affecting the parenchymal Biological tissue of the lungs. It occurs after long-term, heavy exposure to asbestos, e.g....
     - asbestos
    Asbestos

    Asbestos is a naturally occurring silicate mineral with long, thin fibrous crystals. The word asbestos is derived from a Greek language adjective meaning inextinguishable....
     dust
  • Silicosis
    Silicosis

    Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in forms of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs....
     (also known as "grinder's disease") - silica dust
  • Bauxite fibrosis
    Bauxite fibrosis

    Bauxite pneumoconiosis, also known as Shaver's disease, corundum smelter's lung, bauxite lung or bauxite smelters' disease, is a progressive form of pneumoconiosis caused by exposure to bauxite fumes which contain aluminium and silica particulates....
     - bauxite
    Bauxite

    Bauxite is the most important aluminium ore. It consists largely of the minerals gibbsite Al3, boehmite ?-AlO, and diaspore a-AlO, together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase TiO2....
     dust
  • Berylliosis
    Berylliosis

    Berylliosis or chronic beryllium disease is an occupational lung disease that is most classically associated with exposure to fluorescent lighting and missile silos....
     - beryllium
    Beryllium

    Beryllium is a chemical element with the symbol Be and atomic number 4.A Bivalent element, beryllium is found naturally only combined with other elements in minerals....
     dust
  • Siderosis
    Siderosis

    Siderosis is the deposition of iron in tissue.When used without qualification, it usually refers to an environmental disease of the lung.Also Siderosis Bulbi, Deposition of iron in the bulb Causing night blindness...
     - iron
    Iron

    Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
     dust
  • Byssinosis
    Byssinosis

    Byssinosis, also called "brown lung disease" or "Monday fever", is an occupational lung disease caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments....
     - cotton
    Cotton

    Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
     dust
  • Silicosiderosis - mixed dust containing silica and iron
  • Labrador Lung (found in miners in Labrador
    Labrador

    Labrador is a region of Atlantic Canada. Together with the island of Newfoundland from which it is separated by the Strait of Belle Isle, it constitutes the province of Newfoundland and Labrador....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    ) - mixed dust containing iron, silica and anthophyllite
    Anthophyllite

    Anthophyllite is an amphibole mineral: 7Si8O222, magnesium iron Silicate minerals hydroxide. Anthophyllite is polymorphism with cummingtonite....
    , a type of asbestos


Pneumoconiosis in combination with multiple pulmonary rheumatoid nodules in rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic disease inflammation that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks the joints producing a inflammatory synovitis that often progresses to destruction of the articular cartilage and ankylosis of the joints....
 patients is known as Caplan's syndrome
Caplan's syndrome

Caplan's syndrome is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear homogenous and well-defined on chest X-ray....
.

See also

  • Chalicosis
    Chalicosis

    Chalicosis , sometimes called Flint disease, is a form of pneumoconiosis affecting the lungs or bronchioles.It is found chiefly among stonecutters....
  • Philip D'Arcy Hart
    Philip D'Arcy Hart

    Philip Montagu D?Arcy Hart Order of the British Empire, was a United Kingdom medical researcher and pioneer in tuberculosis treatment.He came from a notable Jewish family, being a grandson of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling....
  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a :wikt:factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs." A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis....


Other Work-related Lung Diseases

  • Popcorn workers lung disease
    Bronchiolitis obliterans

    Bronchiolitis obliterans, or Constrictive bronchiolitis, one form of which is called Popcorn Workers' Lung or popcorn lung, is a rare and life-threatening form of non-reversible obstructive lung disease in which the bronchioles are plugged with granulation tissue....
     - Diacetyl
    Diacetyl

    Diacetyl is a natural byproduct of fermentation . It is a Vicinal diketone with the chemical formula C4H6O2....
     emissions and airborne dust from butter flavorings used in microwave popcorn production


External links