Environmental Diseases Flashcards
particulate diseases?
pneumoconioses
the most common pneumoconioses?
coal workers’, silicosis, asbestosis
“black lung”
coal workers pneumoconiosis
which disease: increasing pulmonary dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension, cor pulmonale
coal workers pneumoconiosis
the most prevalent chronic occupational disease in world?
silicosis
primary effector of silicosis?
TNF released by macrophages
concentrically arranged collagen fibers around an amorphous center?
silicotic nodules
which disease: pulmonary hypertension, cor pulmonale, increased risk of TB
silicosis
true or false: crystalline silica is a carcinogen
True
exposure to … linked to localized plaques, diffuse fibrosis and mesothelioma
asbestos
pleural plaques of dense collagen and calcium?
asbestosis
acute alcoholic change?
mainly CNS, reversible fatty change (steatosis), gastritis/gastric ulceration
cirrhosis of liver and alcoholic hepatitis?
chronic alcoholic changes
mallory bodies?
alcoholic hepatitis
alcoholism associated with increased risk of …
hepatocellular carcinoma