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Materials inhaled in the workplace can lead to all the major chronic lung diseases except those due to vascular disease. The physician should consider the possibility of occupational exposure when a working or retired adult presents with unexplained respiratory illness. Even exposure in office buildings¹ and hospitals² occasionally causes illness. Identifying a workplace-related cause of disease is important because it can lead to cure and to prevention for others. Because of differences in the metabolism and susceptibility of hosts, one occupational agent may cause many diseases, just as cigarette smoke causes several distinct disorders. Conversely, one respiratory disease may have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis

Rhinitis and Laryngitis

Tracheitis, Bronchitis, and Bronchiolitis

Asthma

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or Chronic Airflow Limitation

Lung Cancer

Interstitial Lung Disease

            Fibrotic Disease

            Granulomatous Disease

Inhalation Fever

Diagnosis, Determination of Cause, and Treatment

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From the Department of Environmental Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Beckett at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Box EHSC, 575 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY 14642, or at bill_beckett@urmc.rochester.edu.

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