We describe herein a case report of a patient affected by pulmonary asbestosis who developed a non-Hodgkin lymphoma originating in the pleura. The case is unusual for the uncommon site and because the chronic antigenic stimulation by asbestos bodies may have locally promoted an immunologic derangement.
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Pulmonology
December 2025
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Environment and Health, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
J Occup Environ Med
January 2025
From the Occupational Health Safety and Surveillance Program, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, Wisconsin (P.D.C., K.E.M., K.K.S.M., C.R.M., S.B.); and Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (P.D.C., K.K.S.M.).
Objectives: This study aimed to describe asbestosis morbidity and mortality in two statewide samples. We considered trends, demographic disparities, and excess mortality.
Methods: We assessed trends and demographic differences in asbestosis morbidity using hospital and emergency department (ED) visits.
Med Lav
December 2024
Department of Health Sciences; Course of Research Doctorate in Public Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy/Occupational Health Unit, Santi Paolo e Carlo Hospital, Milan, Italy.
The discovery of the detrimental effects of asbestos on human health came long after its widespread use, with the first scientific evidence of asbestos-related diseases emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite efforts to ban its use, asbestos continues to be mined and used in Central Asia (as well as in Russia, China, and other countries). To gain a deeper understanding of the situation in Central Asia, we have conducted a systematic review of scientific literature on the use of asbestos, exposure assessment, and health consequences of asbestos exposure in this geographic area.
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December 2024
Dipartimento di Medicina, Epidemiologia, Igiene del lavoro e ambientale, Istituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro, Roma.
Objectives: to provide an overview of the geographical distribution of mesothelioma and asbestosis deaths in the Campania Region (Southern Italy) occurred from 2005 to 2018 and to identify areas at higher risk.
Design: for each municipality, Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) for mesothelioma and asbestosis have been estimated from the mortality data provided by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat). Deaths for which mesothelioma and asbestosis were identified as the underlying causes, according to the classification system ICD-10 codes (C45 and J61, respectively), were included.
J Occup Med Toxicol
December 2024
Enviroment and Health Department, Istituto Superiore Sanità (ISS), Roma, Italy.
Background: An increased incidence of pleural mesotheliomas in Biancavilla (Italy) was attributed to the environmental exposure to fluoro-edenite (FE). Results from the Ramazzini Institute (RI) in vivo long-term study confirmed the evidence that exposure to FE fibres is correlated with an increase of malignant pleural mesotheliomas in Sprague-Dawley rats. Recently asbestosis-like features were substantiated in Biancavilla residents without known occupational exposures.
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