Some aspects of pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and diagnosis of occupational chronic occupational bronchitis
Budanova, L.F.; Suvorov, I.M.; Pastrushkova, I.N.; Orlova, G.P.; Tsiura, E.V.; Bazhanov, A.A.; LIsochkin, B.G.; Dvorakovskaia, I.V.
Meditsina Truda i Promyshlennaia Ekologiia 10: 24-28
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 1026-9428 PMID: 11715717 Document Number: 538740
The article represents data characterizing course of chronic bronchitis in 78 machinery workers subjected to toxic irritative and sensibilizing aerosols. Findings are early bronchial obstruction and pulmonary emphysema, frequent disorders of microcirculation and lesser circle perfusion, propensity to interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and lung hypertension. The results could serve as a base for pathogenetic therapy and necessitate to include COLD into Occupational Diseases Register.