| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
|
|
|
|||||||
Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password |
|||||||||
1 From the Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2 From the Ontario Ministry of Labour
Five of 88 workers at a textile plant developed interstitial lung disease. Biopsy specimens from the three initial cases demonstrated desquamative interstitial pneumonitis and diffuse alveolar damage. Two of these patients developed hypoxemic respiratory failure despite high-dose corticosteroid therapy. A survey of the remaining textile workers (questionnaires, chest radiographs, and pulmonary function tests) revealed one new case. This patient, and one other with a compatible presentation, improved clinically upon leaving the workplace and did not require therapy. A comprehensive assessment of the work environment was performed in search of potentially toxic respirable agents. We propose that these cases represent desquamative interstitial pneumonitis-like reactions, occupationally related to aflatoxin inhalation.
Key Words: desquamative interstitial pneumonitis • diffuse alveolar damage • mycotoxins
Submitted on August 24, 1994
Accepted on June 9, 1995
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  D. A. Weiland, D. A. Lynch, S. P. Jensen, J. D. Newell, D. E. Miller, R. S. Crausman, C. Kuhn III, and D. G. Kern Thin-Section CT Findings in Flock Worker's Lung, a Work-related Interstitial Lung Disease Radiology, April 1, 2003; 227(1): 222 - 231. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 E. Barroso, M.D. Ibanez, F.I. Aranda, and S. Romero Polyethylene flock-associated interstitial lung disease in a Spanish female Eur. Respir. J., December 1, 2002; 20(6): 1610 - 1612. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
J.M. Anto and P. Cullinan Clusters, classification and epidemiology of interstitial lung diseases: concepts, methods and critical reflections Eur. Respir. J., July 1, 2001; 18(32_suppl): 101S - 106s. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
J.H. Ryu, T.V. Colby, T.E. Hartman, and R. Vassallo Smoking-related interstitial lung diseases: a concise review Eur. Respir. J., January 1, 2001; 17(1): 122 - 132. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 H. Abdel-Haq, M. Palmery, M. G. Leone, L. Saso, and B. Silvestrini Relaxant Effects of Aflatoxins on Isolated Guinea Pig Trachea Toxicol. Sci., May 1, 2000; 55(1): 162 - 170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 D. G. Kern, C. Kuhn III, E. W. Ely, G. S. Pransky, C. J. Mello, A. E. Fraire, and J. Muller Flock Worker’s Lung* : Broadening the Spectrum of Clinicopathology, Narrowing the Spectrum of Suspected Etiologies Chest, January 1, 2000; 117(1): 251 - 259. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 W. L. ESCHENBACHER, K. KREISS, M. D. LOUGHEED, G. S. PRANSKY, B. DAY, and R. M. CASTELLAN Nylon Flock-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., June 1, 1999; 159(6): 2003 - 2008. [Abstract] [Full Text]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 L. W. Raymond Flock Worker's Lung Ann Intern Med, April 6, 1999; 130(7): 615 - 615. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 G. B. Hayes and E. J. Mark Case 5-1998- A 51-Year-Old Man with Myelodysplasia and a Pulmonary Infiltrate N. Engl. J. Med., February 12, 1998; 338(7): 453 - 461. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
