RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of Turkish workers with pneumoconiosis
JF European Respiratory Journal
JO Eur Respir J
FD European Respiratory Society
SP p1056
VO 38
IS Suppl 55
A1 Hilal Altinoz
A1 Cengiz Celikkalkan
A1 Fatih Hamsioglu
A1 Nalan Cengiz
A1 Hikmet Orbay
YR 2011
UL http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/38/Suppl_55/p1056.abstract
AB Pneumoconiosis is an irreversible, preventable disease caused by dust inhalation. Although in other countries, by precautions the incidence decreased to 0,3-5%, it is still 10-15% in our country in pneumoconiosis causing occupations.We aimed to describe the characteristics of our 208 pneumoconiosis workers admitted to Istanbul Occupational Disease Hospital. Patient files between 01st Jan 2008 and 31st Dec 2010 are used for the descriptive study. All of the patients were male with 38,82±13 years of age. The most common workplace was Gaziosmanpasa with 27 cases. The mostly seen works were denim sandblasting, dental technicians, coal mining and casting (%50,5,%12,%6,7,%4,8). The most exposure material was silicium (86,5%). Mean exposure time was 9,9±8,9 years. Profusion according to the ILO classification was in the table. In 37 cases, there was an A opacity and B opacity in 28. The mean FEV1% was 67,27±23,3, FVC%73,78±20,86, FEV1/FVC%85,1±16 and KcO 102,74±28,1. The period between exposure and symptoms were calculated as 10,48±8,7 years. Patients were mostly referred by a social security center, secondly by Sureyyapasa training hospital and thirdly, admitted by themselves. The most common symptoms were breathlessness, cough and exertional dyspnea. The exposure time in a workday is very important but in our files there were no data showing this, so we planned to rearrange our patient files.View this table:Radiographic profusionGenerally each paper in the literature discusses only one type of occupation causing pneumoconiosis. To our knowledge this is the first study concerning nearly all occupations causing the disease.