Occupational and Environmental Bronchiolar Disorders

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• Alternative Title:
  Semin Respir Crit Care Med
• Personal Author:
  Cummings, Kristin J. ; Kreiss, Kathleen
• Description:
  Occupational and environmental causes of bronchiolar disorders are recognized on the basis of case reports, case series, and, less commonly, epidemiologic investigations. Pathology may be limited to the bronchioles or also involve other components of the respiratory tract, including the alveoli. A range of clinical, functional, and radiographic findings, including symptomatic disease lacking abnormalities on noninvasive testing, poses a diagnostic challenge and highlights the value of surgical biopsy. Disease clusters in workplaces and communities have identified new etiologies, drawn attention to indolent disease that may otherwise have been categorized as idiopathic, and expanded the spectrum of histopathologic responses to an exposure. More sensitive noninvasive diagnostic tools, evidence-based therapies, and ongoing epidemiologic investigation of at-risk populations are needed to identify, treat, and prevent exposure-related bronchiolar disorders.
• Subjects:
  Animals Article Biopsy BOOP Bronchial Diseases Bronchioles Bronchiolitis Environmental Exposure Exposure Humans Lung Function Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure

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• Source:
  Semin Respir Crit Care Med. 36(3):366-378
• Pubmed ID:
  26024345
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4610354
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  36
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:37c11c2c8be34c6787e5bbcabe4825058e6f13dfd5f40c7eada922bee4a523f5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/35095/cdc_35095_DS1.pdf
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