TY - JOUR
T1 - Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis and Other Mining-Related Lung Disease
T2 - New Manifestations of Illness in an Age-Old Occupation
AU - Go, Leonard H.T.
AU - Cohen, Robert A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors have nothing to disclose.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) and other mining-related lung diseases are entirely preventable, yet continue to occur. While greater attention has been given to CWP and silicosis, mining exposures cause a broad spectrum of respiratory disease, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and pulmonary fibrosis. Physicians must obtain a detailed occupational and exposure history from miners in order to make an accurate diagnosis and determine the risk of disease progression. Mining-related lung diseases are incurable and difficult to treat. Therefore, primary prevention by limiting dust exposure and secondary prevention through chest imaging and physiologic screening should be the primary focus of disease control.
AB - Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) and other mining-related lung diseases are entirely preventable, yet continue to occur. While greater attention has been given to CWP and silicosis, mining exposures cause a broad spectrum of respiratory disease, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and pulmonary fibrosis. Physicians must obtain a detailed occupational and exposure history from miners in order to make an accurate diagnosis and determine the risk of disease progression. Mining-related lung diseases are incurable and difficult to treat. Therefore, primary prevention by limiting dust exposure and secondary prevention through chest imaging and physiologic screening should be the primary focus of disease control.
KW - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
KW - Coal mine dust
KW - Coal mine dust lung disease
KW - Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis
KW - Dust-related diffuse fibrosis
KW - Lung cancer
KW - Mixed-dust pneumoconiosis
KW - Silicosis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ccm.2020.08.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ccm.2020.08.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33153687
AN - SCOPUS:85094937756
VL - 41
SP - 687
EP - 696
JO - Clinics in Chest Medicine
JF - Clinics in Chest Medicine
SN - 0272-5231
IS - 4
ER -