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24 Cards in this Set
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What populations are more susceptible to harmful effects of breathing polluted air?
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Babies, Elderly, Those with chronic lung and heart diseases
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Ozone: ill effects
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burning eyes, cough, chest discomfort, pulmonary function impairment at high levels
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2nd leading cause of lung cancer after tobacco smoke
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radon in the home
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specific disease that strikes people present in a bulding
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building-associated illness
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A substantial minority of people who spend time in a building are bothered by air pollution symptoms, but no specific disease can be diagnosed.
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Sick building syndrome
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Sick building syndrome: symptoms
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Headache
Fatigue Difficulty concentrating Nose and throat irritation Eye irritation Dry skin |
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Categories of occupational lung disease
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Neoplastic
Parenchymal Airway Toxic, irritant |
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Asbestos, uranium, nickel, arsenic, chromates: associated with what occupational lung disease?
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cancer
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3 types of parenchymal occupational lung disease
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Fibrogenic dusts (inorganic)
Granulomatous response Hypersensitvity pneumonitis (organic dusts) |
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Farmer’s lung, bird breeders lung, etc is aka
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extrinsic allergic alveolitis
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What are sx and signs of acute extrinsic allergic alveolitis
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Pneumonia like: dyspnea, cough, fever, chills with “air space” pattern on CXR
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What are sx and signs of chronic extrinsic allergic alveolitis
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Slowly progressive dyspnea, cough
Interstitial pattern on CXR Restrictive PFT |
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T/F Granulomatous lung disease is indistinguishable from sarcoidosis
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Pneumoconiosis: defn
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Reaction of the lung to the presence of inhaled dust
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Accumulation of coal dust over years and associated changes
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coal worker's pneumoconiosis
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Characterized by Coal dust macules and nodules
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Simple coal worker's pneumoconiosis
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What is complicated coal worker's pneumoconiosis?
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progressive massive fibrosis, obliterative changes of airways and vessels
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Acute silicosis: pathophysiology
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Alveolar filling by lipoproteinaceous material that resembles surfactant
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Chronic silicosis: pathophys
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Cytotoxic effect on alveolar macrophages
Secretion of pro-inflammatory mediators and fibroblast growth factors |
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Silicosis usually affects (lower, upper) lobes first while asbestosis usually affects (lower, upper) lobes first.
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upper; lower
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interstitial fibrosis with asbestos bodies
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asbestosis
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In addition to asbestosis, what other lung diseases are associated with asbestos exposure?
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Pleural plaques
Pleural effusions Mesothelioma Carcinoma |
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T/F Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for mesothelioma
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F
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T/F Asbestos exposure is a risk factor for lung carcinoma
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T (and mesothelioma)
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