title: [Diseases caused by asbestos dust and the trend of their development in exposed workers in 1951-2003].
abstract: The paper summarizes the principal information on the properties and effects of asbestos and a survey of diseases which can be recognized in the Czech Republic as occupational diseases according to the List of Occupational Diseases (Government Order 290/1995 Coll.). The paper lists possible diagnostic means and criteria for evaluation and presents a survey of developmental trends of the disease in exposed workers of the plant under study. In the period of years 1951-2003, 87 cases of occupational diseases were reported. The first asbestosis occurred in 1955, the first lung cancer in a patient with a previously reported asbestosis in 1962, the first pleural mesothelioma in 1976, the first asbestosis of the lung with concurrent lung cancer in 1981, and the first pleural hyalinosis in 1999. A very serious fact is that 56, i.e. 64.4% of diseases, particularly lung cancer and mesothelioma, were diagnosed after the termination of working in risk and many years of latency. A long-term folow-up of workers, even of those with a short exposure, is therefore necessary.
authors.affiliation: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Lékarská fakulta v Hradci Králové, Klinika nemocí z povolání. hassmanova@fnhk.cz
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hassmanová
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001194:Asbestos / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001195:Asbestosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018153:Czech Republic / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D001194:Asbestos