title: Occupational and environmental lung disease.
abstract: Occupational and environmental lung disease remains a major cause of respiratory impairment worldwide. Despite regulations, increasing rates of coal worker's pneumoconiosis and progressive massive fibrosis are being reported in the United States. Dust exposures are occurring in new industries, for instance, silica in hydraulic fracking. Nonoccupational environmental lung disease contributes to major respiratory disease, asthma, and COPD. Knowledge of the imaging patterns of occupational and environmental lung disease is critical in diagnosing patients with occult exposures and managing patients with suspected or known exposures.
authors.affiliation: Duke University Medical Center, 1612 Bivins Street, Durham, NC 27707, USA. Electronic address: seaman.danielle@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Danielle M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Seaman
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Avenue, MC 3252, Madison, WI 53792, USA.
authors.forename: Cristopher A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Avenue, MC 3252, Madison, WI 53792, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Kanne
mesh_terms: D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D018876:Environmental Illness / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D009017:Morbidity; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*
keywords: Asbestos; Beryllium; Biomass; Coal; Hard metal; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Occupational asthma; Silica