Pneumoconiosis
“Black lung” redirects here. For the music project, see Black Lung.
ICD-10 | J60.-J65. |
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ICD-9 | 500-505 |
DiseasesDB | 31746 |
MeSH | D011009 |
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust. Depending on the type of dust, variants of the disease are considered.
Types include:
- Coalworker's pneumoconiosis (also known as "black lung") - coal dust
- Asbestosis - asbestos dust
- Silicosis (also known as "grinhelloders' disease") - silica dust
- Bauxite fibrosis - bauxite dust
- Berylliosis - beryllium dust
- Siderosis - iron dust
- Labrador Lung (found in miners in Labrador, Canada) - mixed dust, including iron, silica and anthophyllite, a type of asbestos
Pneumoconiosis in combination with multiple pulmonary in rheumatoid arthritis patients is known as Caplan's syndrome.[1]
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Popular culture references
- A longer, factitious term is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
- In the classic British film Brief Encounter (1945), derived from a Noel Coward play, housewife Laura (Celia Johnson) and physician Alec (Trevor Howard) begin an affair. She is desperately mesmerized in a train station lounge by his evocation of his passion for pneumoconioses:
- Laura: “You were saying about the coal mines…”
- Alec: “Oh yes, the inhalation of coal dust…That’s one specific form of the disease. It’s called anthracosis.”
- Laura [Tenderly]: “What are the others?”
- Alec: “Chalicosis. That comes from metal dust. Steel works, you know…”
- Laura [Breathlessly]: “Yes, of course… Steel works…”
- Alec: “And silicosis… That’s stone dust… Gold mines…”
- Laura [Almost swooning]: “I see…”
- Bell rings
- Laura: “There’s your train.”
- Alec: “Yes.”
- Laura: “You mustn’t miss it.”
- Alec: “No.”
References
- ^ Andreoli, Thomas, ed. CECIL Essentials of Medicine. Saunders: Pennsylvania, 2004. p. 737.