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Intracellular but not undetectable: A case of pericarditis.
IDCases
December 2024
Division of Public Health, Infectious Disease, and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
is a facultatively intracellular, gram-negative bacillus and a rare cause of infection in the United States. We report a case of a 45-year-old male who presented with ongoing fever, shortness of breath, and was found to have a pericardial effusion and pulmonic infiltrates due to . Though tularemia is classically associated with rabbits and rodents, we note the patient in our case had no clear infectious exposure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA comprehensive retrospect on the current perspectives and future prospects of pneumoconiosis.
Front Public Health
January 2025
Environmental Exposures Vascular Disease Institute, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Pneumoconiosis is a widespread occupational pulmonary disease caused by inhalation and retention of dust particles in the lungs, is characterized by chronic pulmonary inflammation and progressive fibrosis, potentially leading to respiratory and/or heart failure. Workers exposed to dust, such as coal miners, foundry workers, and construction workers, are at risk of pneumoconiosis. This review synthesizes the international and national classifications, epidemiological characteristics, strategies for prevention, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, pathogenesis, and treatment of pneumoconiosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMyeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis with silicosis, alveolar hemorrhage, and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis: a case report.
AME Case Rep
October 2024
Center for Asbestos-Related Diseases, Toyama Rosai Hospital, Toyama, Japan.
Background: The underlying pathophysiology of some occupational diseases such as silicosis involves autoantibodies. An autoantibody, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA), has been recently reported and is known to be elevated in diseases such as vasculitis; therefore, the disease is currently known as ANCA-associated vasculitis. The risk of ANCA-associated vasculitis is known to be 25 times higher in patients with silicosis than in those without any occupational disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeveloping a model for prioritizing occupational risk prevention practices in industries: a Delphi study.
J Inj Violence Res
January 2025
Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Email:
Background: Occupational accidents, injuries, and diseases remain critical health concerns. Designing and implementing checklists for occupational risk prevention are key strategies to mitigate these accidents and their adverse effects. However, due to the diverse nature of occupational hazards, these checklists tend to encompass a substantial number of prevention practices, making their full implementation challenging in terms of financial and human resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Clinical characteristics and prognosis of type 1 infratentorial superficial siderosis].
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi
February 2025
Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China.
A total of 7 patients with type 1 infratentorial superficial siderosis(iSS-1)in Memory Clinic at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University from March 2019 to March 2023 were respectively collected to analyze the clinical characteristics and treatment, and followed up for 12 months. There were 7 patients, 2 males and 5 females, aged 56 (49-60) years. The 4 patients who underwent cognitive assessment had varying degree of cognitive impairment, with 2 patients exhibiting severe executive function impairment.
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